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Paperback Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History Book
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ISBN: 022626436X

ISBN13: 9780226264363

Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History

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Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations--such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China--kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory--all of them tending toward the elephant's extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this...

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