Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Investigating Animals, their products, and their trades in the Indian Ocean World

                        Martha Chaiklin and Philip Gooding

Chapter 2: The Dutch East India Company and the transport of live exotic animals in the seventeenth and eighteenth century

                        Ria Winters

Chapter 3: Can the Oyster Speak? Pearling Empires and the Marine Environments of South India and Sri Lanka, c. 1600-1900

                        Samuel Ostroff

Chapter 4: Chank Fishing in South India under the East India Company, 1800-1840

                        Sundar Vadlamudi

Chapter 5: Horses and Power in the Southern Red Sea Region Since the Seventeenth Century

                        Steven Serels

Chapter 6: The donkey trade of the Indian Ocean World in the long nineteenth century

                        William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Chapter 7: Commercialisation of Cattle in Imperial Madagascar, 1795-1895

                        Gwyn Campbell

Chapter 8: Ayutthaya's Seventeenth-Century Deerskin Trade in the Extended Eastern Indian Ocean and South China Sea

                        Ilicia J. Sprey and Kenneth R. Hall

Chapter 9: The Ivory Trade and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

                        Philip Gooding

Chapter 10: The Flight of the Peacock, or how Peacocks became Japanese

Martha Chaiklin