The Royal African War Elephant

Author : Marquett Ivy
Publisher : Media Management and Publishing LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798989205509

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The Royal African War Elephant by Marquett Ivy Pdf

The First of its kind, this commemorative focus is specifically on The Royal African War Elephant in history. The first and second editions of this book are set to be distinct from any other history book in the use of war elephants. This book is a compilation of descriptions and illustrations of African War Elephants and their use in labor and war, depicted by cartographers and traveloggers in rarely circulated images. It is considered hidden history, now brought back into circulation for educational discussion and inspiration. "The Royal African War Elephant" boasts a narrative that not only reveals hidden agendas and conspired motives but also appreciates and magnifies gratitude for the traveloggers, historians, and cartographers of the Middle Ages. It lays out the institutional and cultural solutions paving the way for the future, restoring the kingdoms of African peoples. Images and depictions of the Royal African War Elephant throughout the ages are brought to their rightful place. Learn about the kingdoms, the people, and the quietly kept secrets of the African elephant that played a pivotal role in world history."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414926532

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Elephant by Anonim Pdf

Author : Konstantin Nossov,Konstantin S Nossov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846038037

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War Elephants by Konstantin Nossov,Konstantin S Nossov Pdf

Elephants have been deployed as weapons for centuries, particularly in South and South-East Asia, where war elephants constituted the bulk of most armies in the region from antiquity right up to the 19th century. This book offers an insight into the incredible history of these 'living tanks,' focusing on the design of the equipment and armament that made them so terrifying. The author, Konstantin S Nossov, traces the history of war elephants, from their deployment against Alexander the Great's army at the battle of Gaugamela, through to their use in the 19th century by the armies of South-East Asia, analyzing the battle formation and tactics of war elephants in action and how these tactics developed.

Author : John M. Kistler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803260040

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War Elephants by John M. Kistler Pdf

Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. This is the largely forgotten tale of the credit they deserve and the sacrifices they endured.

Author : J. J. Blanc
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 2831707072

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African Elephant Status Report 2002 by J. J. Blanc Pdf

The African elephant is the largest living land mammal, and their potential impact on their habitats raises important management issues both for protected areas and unprotected land. This Status Report, derived from data contained in the African Elephant Database, is rich in data and information on numbers, distribution and current issues, and provides continent-wide information that is vital for conservation. It will help wildlife management authorities to harmonize their policy and management decisions across regions, as well as the continent, to reduce conflict and relax the pressure on habitats.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226264530

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Elephants & Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

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 study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

Author : Brian Todd Carey,Joshua Allfree,John Cairns
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781592632

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Warfare in the Ancient World by Brian Todd Carey,Joshua Allfree,John Cairns Pdf

Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millenium BC and the fall of Rome. Through a exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems - heavy and light infantry and hevay and light cavalry - focusing on how shock and missile combat evolved from tentative beginnings in the Bronze Age to the highly developed military organization created by the Romans. The art of warfare reached a very sophisticated level of development during this three millenia span. Commanders fully realized the tactical capabilities of shock and missile combat in large battlefield situations. Modern principles of war, like the primacy of the offensive, mass, and economy of force, were understood by pre-modern generals and applied on battlefields throughout the period. Through the use of dozens of multiphase tactical maps, this fascinating introduction to the art of war during western civilizationÕs ancient and classical periods pulls together the primary and secondary sources and creates a powerful historical narrative. The result is a synthetic work that will be essential reading for students and armchair historians alike.

Author : Barnaby Phillips
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786079367

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Loot by Barnaby Phillips Pdf

A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?

Author : Alexandra Celia Kelly
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295748825

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Consuming Ivory by Alexandra Celia Kelly Pdf

The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like Ivoryton and Deep River, Connecticut, thrived, the African ivory trade left in its wake massive human exploitation and ecological devastation. At the same time, dynamic East African engagement with capitalism and imperialism took place within these trade histories. Drawing from extensive archival and field research in New England, Great Britain, and Tanzania, Alexandra Kelly investigates the complex global legacies of the historical ivory trade. She not only explains the complexities of this trade but also analyzes Anglo-American narratives about Africa, questioning why elephants and ivory feature so centrally in those representations. From elephant conservation efforts to the cultural heritage industries in New England and East Africa, her study reveals the ongoing global repercussions of the ivory craze and will be of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and conservationists.

Author : Simon Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035769887

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War-horse and Elephant in the Dehli Sultanate by Simon Digby Pdf

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000432121

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A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare by Kaushik Roy Pdf

This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era. Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, ‘global’ military history is actually the triumphal story of the West from Classical Greece onwards. This volume focuses not only on the eastern part of Eurasia but also on South America, Africa and Australasia and seeks to explain the history and varied trajectories of warfare in non-Western regions in the pre-modern era. Further, it evaluates whether warfare in non-Western regions should be considered primitive or inferior when compared with Western warfare. The book notes that Western Europe became militarily significant only in the early modern era and argues that the military divergence that occurred during the early modern era is not unique – it had also occurred in the Bronze Age, the Classical era and in the medieval period. This was due to the dynamism and innovativeness of non-Western militaries and the interconnectedness that existed in parts of the Eurasian landmass. Further, those polities which were able to construct a balanced military force by synthesising diverse elements were not only able to survive but also became capable of projecting power across continents. This book will be of much interest to students of military history, strategic studies and world history.

Author : Jacob Shell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393247770

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Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants by Jacob Shell Pdf

“No one who loves elephants or how humans interact with wildlife should pass up Jacob Shell’s remarkable book.” —Dan Flores, author of Coyote America Giants of the Monsoon Forest journeys deep into the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India to explore the world of teak logging elephants and their intriguing alliance with humans. Jacob Shell’s narrative vividly depicts elephants’ extraordinary intelligence, and the complicated bond with individual human riders, a partnership that can last for decades. Giants of the Monsoon Forest reveals an unexpected relationship between evolution in the natural world and political struggles in the human one, while considering how Asia’s secret forest culture might offer a way to help protect the fragile spaces both elephants and humans need to survive.

Author : Alan B. Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199286195

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Ancient Egypt by Alan B. Lloyd Pdf

In Ancient Egypt: State and Society, Alan B. Lloyd attempts to define, analyse, and evaluate the institutional and ideological systems which empowered and sustained one of the most successful civilizations of the ancient world for a period in excess of three and a half millennia. The volume adopts the premise that all societies are the product of a continuous dialogue with their physical context - understood in the broadest sense - and that, in order to achieve a successful symbiosis with this context, they develop an interlocking set of systems, defined by historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists as culture. Culture, therefore, can be described as the sum total of the methods employed by a group of human beings to achieve some measure of control over their environment. Covering the entirety of the civilization, and featuring a large number of up-to-date translations of original Egyptian texts, Ancient Egypt focuses on the main aspects of Egyptian culture which gave the society its particular character, and endeavours to establish what allowed the Egyptians to maintain that character for an extraordinary length of time, despite enduring cultural shock of many different kinds.

Author : W. D. M. BELL
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER by W. D. M. BELL Pdf

The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter is the story of Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, a famous big game hunter in East Africa at the turn of the century.

Author : Simon Elliott
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526765659

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Alexander the Great versus Julius Caesar by Simon Elliott Pdf

An exhaustive comparison of two great leaders, using seven traits to judge their military successes with the Macedonian Army and the Republican Roman Army. In the annals of ancient history the lights of Alexander the Great and Gaius Julius Caesar shine brighter than any other, inspiring generations of dynasts and despots with their imperial exploits. Each has been termed the greatest military leader of the ancient world, but who actually was the best? In this book Dr Simon Elliott first establishes a set of criteria by which to judge the strategic and tactical genius of both. He then considers both in turn in brand-new, up-to-date military biographies, starting with Alexander, undefeated in battle and conqueror of the largest empire the world had seen by the age of 26. Next Caesar, the man who played the crucial role in expanding Roman territory to the size which would later emerge as the Empire under his great nephew, adopted son and heir Augustus. The book’s detailed conclusion sets each of their military careers against the criteria set out earlier to finally answer the question: who was the greatest military leader in the ancient world? “Takes the attributes of the lives of these two great individuals of history and compares each man against each other . . . beautifully written . . . an informed and comprehensive read.” —UK Historian “A truly fantastic book . . . makes the history that Elliott teaches us fun and engaging as we follow these great generals on their exploits . . . It is one of the best ancient history books I have read.” —History with Jackson