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Allsen 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 406 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aEncounters with Asia 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-3926-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$t1. Hunting Histories --$tWorld Histories and the World of Animals --$tPursuing Protein --$tPursuing Profit --$tPursuing Power --$tThis Hunting History --$t2. Field and Stream --$tWho Hunted? --$tWhere Did They Hunt? --$tHow Often Did They Hunt? --$tHow Did They Hunt? --$tOn What Scale Did They Hunt? --$t3. Parks --$tThe Paradise and Its Antecedents --$tHunting Parks at the Core and on the Periphery --$tHunting Parks in East Asia --$tThe Purposes of Paradise --$t4. Partners --$tAnimal Assistants --$tDogs --$tBirds --$tElephants --$tCats --$t5. Administration --$tHunting Establishments --$tSuccess and Safety --$tCareers --$tCosts --$t6. Conservation --$tKilling and Sparing --$tGame Management --$tCultural Constraints --$tSpecies Endangered --$tNatural Attitudes --$t7. A Measure of Men --$tHunting and Hierarchy --$tPrincely Virtues --$tCourting Danger --$tPublicizing Prowess --$t8. Political Animals --$tPower of Animals --$tPower over Animals --$t9. Legitimation --$tAnimals and Ideology --$tThreat --$tAnimal Control Officer --$tState and Nature --$t10. Circulation --$tOn the Road --$tPursuing Pleasures --$tFavors --$tThe Court Out-of-Doors --$t11. Intimidation --$tInitiating Warriors --$tImitating War --$tIntimating War --$tInitiating War --$t12. Internationalization --$tTraffic in Animals --$tDogs --$tBirds --$tElephants --$tCats --$tTraffic in Trainers --$t13. Conclusions --$tHistory Wide --$tHistory Deep --$tNotes --$tAbbreviations and Primary Sources --$tBibliography and Modern Scholarship --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFrom antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China. Besides marking elite status, royal hunts functioned as inspection tours and imperial progresses, a means of asserting kingly authority over the countryside. The hunt was, in fact, the "court out-of-doors," an open-air theater for displays of majesty, the entertainment of guests, and the bestowal of favor on subjects.In the conduct of interstate relations, great hunts were used to train armies, show the flag, and send diplomatic signals. Wars sometimes began as hunts and ended as celebratory chases. Often understood as a kind of covert military training, the royal hunt was subject to the same strict discipline as that applied in war and was also a source of innovation in military organization and tactics.Just as human subjects were to recognize royal power, so was the natural kingdom brought within the power structure by means of the royal hunt. Hunting parks were centers of botanical exchange, military depots, early conservation reserves, and important links in local ecologies. The mastery of the king over nature served an important purpose in official renderings: as a manifestation of his possession of heavenly good fortune he could tame the natural world and keep his kingdom safe from marauding threats, human or animal. The exchanges of hunting partners-cheetahs, elephants, and even birds-became diplomatic tools as well as serving to create an elite hunting culture that transcended political allegiances and ecological frontiers.This sweeping comparative work ranges from ancient Egypt to India under the Raj. With a magisterial command of contemporary sources, literature, material culture, and archaeology, Thomas T. 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