{"product_id":"maritime-animals-9780271095370","title":"Maritime Animals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail, presenting the ship as a place where the ocean and animal species interact in often surprising ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMaritime Animals\u003c\/i\u003e provides a readable, highly entertaining, fascinating look at the roles animals and other non-human agents played in the making of the maritime world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—J. Rankin \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With each chapter focusing on relationships between humans, ships, and different animal species, \u003ci\u003eMaritime Animals\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jakobina Arch,author of \u003ci\u003eBringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The ten chapters in \u003ci\u003eMaritime Animals\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Andrew Kincaid,author of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaori Nagai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Islands, Oceans, Whaling Ships, and the Mutable Ontologies of the Galápagos Tortoise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Haworth and Lynette Russell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Shipworms and Maritime Ecology in the Age of Sail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek Lee Nelson and Adam Sundberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Sheep from Cowes: Using a Shipboard Diary to Explore Animal Mobilities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Cushing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Weapons, Commodities, Subjects: Stories of Horses at Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Landry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Repatriating Castaways: Travel Tales of the Tuatara\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Boswell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Rattus- Homo- Machine: Rats as Seafarers in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaori Nagai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. “Beloved Member of Our Team”: The Sled Dogs of the \u003ci\u003eSt. Roch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLea Edgar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The Decontextualized Deep: Fathoming the Whale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJimmy Packham and Laurence Publicover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. The Encrusting Ocean: Life- Forms of the Spongy Wreck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKillian Quigley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Drifting with Snails: Stories from Hawai‘i\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThom van Dooren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400821743959,"sku":"9780271095370","price":83.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maritime-animals-9780271095370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}