Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.
<p>“<i>Maritime Animals</i> provides a readable, highly entertaining, fascinating look at the roles animals and other non-human agents played in the making of the maritime world.”</p><p>—J. Rankin <i>Choice</i></p>
<p>“In a rare feat for edited collections, there is no weak essay among the bunch. Every contribution is both interesting and a delight to read. From animals intentionally brought onto ships to those which came of their own accord, from horse to sponge, this volume offers us a vision of how broad animal studies can be.”</p><p>—Dolly Jørgensen <i>H-Environment</i></p>
<p>“As in every menagerie, this collection of beasty papers truly holds something for everyone; but for the friends of the scaly and slimy, and of the salt-splashed quadrupeds, there is also a delightful whimsy found here even as critter agency is weighed carefully against the asymmetrical influence of the human animal on others’ lives and wellbeing.”</p><p>—Sara Rich <i>Journal of Maritime Archaeology</i></p>
<p>“<i>Maritime Animals</i> makes for intriguing reading not only for those interested in the history of animals, but also for those who wish to find new perspectives in maritime history and the global expansion of humans in general and Europeans in particular.”</p><p>—Sari Mäenpää <i>International Journal of Maritime History</i></p>
<p>“A welcome contribution to the historical study of human-animal relations, more-than-human entanglements, and multispecies narratives in the maritime age of early modern and modern Europe.”</p><p>—Christine Y. L. Luk <i>Isis</i></p>
<p>“With each chapter focusing on relationships between humans, ships, and different animal species, <i>Maritime Animals</i> redefines the scope of what we see as maritime into a less anthropocentric conceptualization of ocean-based interactions. Through animal case studies, the authors present the maritime world as a complex ecology of human and nonhuman interactions, mediated through the technologies of ships. This book makes valuable contributions in particular to animal studies, environmental history, ecocriticism, and maritime history.”</p><p>—Jakobina Arch, author of <i>Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan</i></p>
<p>“The ten chapters in <i>Maritime Animals</i> challenge academic norms, be it through the unusual species being written about (snails, worms, reptiles), or via the uncanny theorizations of space and time, as explored from the perspective of nonhuman species. This collection pushes maritime studies into new directions, including a better appreciation of relationships between animals and shipping, history and ecology, pests and colonialism.”</p><p>—Andrew Kincaid, author of <i>Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment</i></p>
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.
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
A thoughtful, global maritime history that centers non-human animals.
Highlights the ways in which species, through their interaction with the oceans, tell stories and make histories in significant and often surprising ways.
Maritime Animals challenges an anthropocentric understanding of maritime history.
Chapters focus on specific species, such as the Galapagos Tortoise, tuatara lizard, Inuit sled dogs, horses, pigs, rats, sponges, and Hawaiian snails.
Features contributions from scholars in animal studies, maritime studies, and environmental humanities.
Books in the series share a fascination not only with the importance of animals in human life, but also with how thinking about animals can give us insights into human cultures, in different temporal and geographical contexts.
Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures is an exciting new book series, edited by historian Nigel Rothfels, and published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Books in the series share a fascination not only with the importance of animals in human life, but also with how thinking about animals can give us insights into human cultures, in different temporal and geographical contexts. Moreover, they represent a wide range of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities and social sciences, including history, anthropology, social and cultural geography, environmental studies, and literary and art criticism. Books in the series use original research and innovative analysis; demonstrate an awareness of the existing literature in animal studies; eschew disciplinary-specific jargon to serve a wide range of audiences; and have a clear focus on learning something new about human cultures.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.