Colonizing Animals

Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. This pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 explores how animals were transformed by colonial subjugation and introduces readers to an innovative historical methodology for exploring interspecies relationships in the imperial past.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Valuing animals; 2. Vital resources; 3. Regulating death; 4. Imperial differentiations; 5. Anticolonial affinities; 6. Revolting creatures; Conclusion; Bibliography.

About the author

Jonathan Saha is Associate Professor of History at the University of Durham. A specialist in the history of British colonial rule in Myanmar, he has published widely on the topics of law, criminality, state formation, gender, medicine, and animals. He is the author of Law, Disorder and the Colonial State (2013).

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan (Durham University) Saha, Saha Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781108964630
• ISBN: 978-1-108-96463-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Myanmar, British Empire, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Animals & society, Asian History, Animals and society, Myanmar (Burma)