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Author Trautmann, Thomas R., author

Title Elephants and kings : an environmental history / Thomas Trautmann
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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Contents Retreat and persistence of elephants -- Elephants and Indian kingship -- War elephants -- Structures of use: caturaga, vihana, vyha -- Elephant knowledge -- The spread of the war elephant -- North India, South India, Sri Lanka -- The Near East, North Africa, Europe -- Southeast Asia -- After the war elephant -- Drawing the balance, looking ahead
Summary Because of their enormous size, elephants have been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In the early civilisations - Egypt, Assyria and Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilisation, China - kings have used elephants in royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, and the conspicuous consumption of ivory - all of them tending toward the elephant's extinction. But the kings of India, as Thomas Trautmann writes in this book, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war
Analysis environment, environmental, species, history, historical, animals, nonhuman, elephant, anthropology, anthropologist, symbol, symbolism, significance, civilizations, ancient world, egypt, mesopotamia, indus, china, royalty, extinction, endangered, india, habitat, war, warfare, battles, fighting, army, military, militia, antiquity, southeast asia, domestic, domestication, capture, captivity, ecology, asian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Elephants -- War use -- India -- History
Asiatic elephant -- India -- History
Asiatic elephant -- Ecology -- India -- History
Forest conservation -- India -- History
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Asiatic elephant
Asiatic elephant -- Ecology
Elephants -- War use
Forest conservation
Kings and rulers
Asiatischer Elefant
Kriegführung
SUBJECT India -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003004943
India -- Kings and rulers -- History
Subject India
Indien
India.
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226264530
022626453X