Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History

by Thomas R. Trautmann and Thomas Trautmann

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022626436X
• ISBN13: 9780226264363
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"