With the Kurram Field Force, 1878-79
Author : James Andrew Sutherland Colquhoun
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Afghan Wars
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Author : James Andrew Sutherland Colquhoun
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Afghan Wars
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Author : James L. Hevia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 022656228X
Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousands of camels of the Indus River basin to move supplies into and out of contested areas—a system that wreaked havoc on the delicately balanced multispecies environment of humans, animals, plants, and microbes living in this region of Northwest India. In Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare, James Hevia examines the use of camels, mules, and donkeys in colonial campaigns of conquest and pacification, starting with the Second Afghan War—during which an astonishing 50,000 to 60,000 camels perished—and ending in the early twentieth century. Hevia explains how during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new set of human-animal relations were created as European powers and the United States expanded their colonial possessions and attempted to put both local economies and ecologies in the service of resource extraction. The results were devastating to animals and human communities alike, disrupting centuries-old ecological and economic relationships. And those effects were lasting: Hevia shows how a number of the key issues faced by the postcolonial nation-state of Pakistan—such as shortages of clean water for agriculture, humans, and animals, and limited resources for dealing with infectious diseases—can be directly traced to decisions made in the colonial past. An innovative study of an underexplored historical moment, Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare opens up the animal studies to non-Western contexts and provides an empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of multispecies historical ecology.
Author : United States. Dept. of State. Division of Information
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : John Ellor Taylor
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Marine animals
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Author : Walter Jerrold
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Afghan Wars
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385312752
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Luzac &co
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Cambridge University Library
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : District of Columbia. Public Library
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Page : 728 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1907
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