Maritime Animals
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09538-7 (ISBN)
Far from treating the ship as a confined space defined by the sea, Maritime Animals considers the ship’s connections to broader contexts and networks and covers a variety of locations, from the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific Islands. Each chapter focuses on the oceanic experiences of a particular species, from ship vermin, animals transported onboard as food, and animal specimens for scientific study to livestock, companion and working animals, deep-sea animals that find refuge in shipwrecks, and terrestrial animals that hunker down on flotsam and jetsam. Drawing on recent scholarship in animal studies, maritime studies, environmental humanities, and a wide range of other perspectives and storytelling approaches, Maritime Animals challenges an anthropocentric understanding of maritime history. Instead, this volume highlights the ways in which species, through their interaction with the oceans, tell stories and make histories in significant and often surprising ways.
In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Anna Boswell, Nancy Cushing, Lea Edgar, David Haworth, Donna Landry, Derek Lee Nelson, Jimmy Packham, Laurence Publicover, Killian Quigley, Lynette Russell, Adam Sundberg, and Thom van Dooren.
Kaori Nagai is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland and Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kaori Nagai
1. Islands, Oceans, Whaling Ships, and the Mutable Ontologies of the Galápagos Tortoise
David Haworth and Lynette Russell
2. Shipworms and Maritime Ecology in the Age of Sail
Derek Lee Nelson and Adam Sundberg
3. Sheep from Cowes: Using a Shipboard Diary to Explore Animal Mobilities
Nancy Cushing
4. Weapons, Commodities, Subjects: Stories of Horses at Sea
Donna Landry
5. Repatriating Castaways: Travel Tales of the Tuatara
Anna Boswell
6. Rattus- Homo- Machine: Rats as Seafarers in the Nineteenth Century
Kaori Nagai
7. “Beloved Member of Our Team”: The Sled Dogs of the St. Roch
Lea Edgar
8. The Decontextualized Deep: Fathoming the Whale
Jimmy Packham and Laurence Publicover
9. The Encrusting Ocean: Life- Forms of the Spongy Wreck
Killian Quigley
10. Drifting with Snails: Stories from Hawai‘i
Thom van Dooren
List of Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Animalibus |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-09538-5 / 0271095385 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-09538-7 / 9780271095387 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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