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1 online resource : maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Retreat and persistence of elephants -- Elephants and Indian kingship -- War elephants -- Structures of use: caturaga, vihana, vyha -- Elephant knowledge -- The spread of the war elephant -- North India, South India, Sri Lanka -- The Near East, North Africa, Europe -- Southeast Asia -- After the war elephant -- Drawing the balance, looking ahead. |
| Summary |
Because of their enormous size, elephants have been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In the early civilisations - Egypt, Assyria and Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilisation, China - kings have used elephants in royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, and the conspicuous consumption of ivory - all of them tending toward the elephant's extinction. But the kings of India, as Thomas Trautmann writes in this book, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Elephants -- War use -- India -- History.
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Elephants -- War use. |
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India. |
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History. |
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Asiatic elephant -- India -- History.
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Asiatic elephant. |
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India -- History, Military.
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History, Military. |
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India -- Kings and rulers -- History.
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Asiatic elephant -- Ecology -- India -- History.
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Forest conservation -- India -- History.
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Forest conservation. |
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Kings and rulers. |
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other. |
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Asiatic elephant -- Ecology. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. |
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Asiatischer Elefant. |
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Kriegführung. |
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Indien. |
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India. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Military history.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Trautmann, Thomas R. Elephants and kings 9780226264226 (DLC) 2014035716 (OCoLC)890757474 |
| ISBN |
9780226264530 (electronic book) |
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022626453X (electronic book) |
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9780226264226 (print) |
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9780226264363 (print) |
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022626422X |
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022626436X |
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