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The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History (review)

The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History (review) Book Reviews The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. By thomas t. allsen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 416 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Thomas Allsen’s The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History is an ambitious and frequently insightful work of world history. It explores how “the hunt,” whether “out” in nature or in controlled spaces such as paradises or hunting parks, served to legitimize political authority in the premod- ern world, to demonstrate rulers’ symbolic power over animals—and, by extension, over their human subjects. Equipped with a Braudelian spirit of expansive inquiry over time and space, the author aims to examine the “predominantly political activity” of royal hunting in a vast geographical space “over the long term” (p. 8). Allsen takes on the formidable task of tracing the development of the royal hunt out of the protein pursuit of hunter-gatherer societies to its place among the political and cultural trappings of Eurasian rulers across thousands of years, from the ancient beginnings of “civilization” in his “core area” to a few fl eeting references to its use by nineteenth-century imperialists. Allsen identifi es the core area of the royal hunt—where it developed and fl ourished in an extensive network of trade in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History (review)

Reed, Charles V.
Journal of World History , Volume 19 (1) – May 2, 2008
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Book Reviews The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. By thomas t. allsen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 416 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Thomas Allsen’s The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History is an ambitious and frequently insightful work of world history. It explores how “the hunt,” whether “out” in nature or in controlled spaces such as paradises or hunting parks, served to legitimize political authority in the premod- ern world, to demonstrate rulers’ symbolic power over animals—and, by extension, over their human subjects. Equipped with a Braudelian spirit of expansive inquiry over time and space, the author aims to examine the “predominantly political activity” of royal hunting in a vast geographical space “over the long term” (p. 8). Allsen takes on the formidable task of tracing the development of the royal hunt out of the protein pursuit of hunter-gatherer societies to its place among the political and cultural trappings of Eurasian rulers across thousands of years, from the ancient beginnings of “civilization” in his “core area” to a few fl eeting references to its use by nineteenth-century imperialists. Allsen identifi es the core area of the royal hunt—where it developed and fl ourished in an extensive network of trade in

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Journal of World History – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: May 2, 2008

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