Maritime Animals

Ships, Species, Stories

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2023
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09537-0 (ISBN)

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This volume explores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail—as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship movement.

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.

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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	27.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Animalibus
Zusatzinfo	12 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	University Park
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-271-09537-7 / 0271095377
ISBN-13	978-0-271-09537-0 / 9780271095370
Zustand	Neuware