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Scurrying seafarers : shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border
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dc.contributor.author | Skotnes-Brown, Jules | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-05T09:30:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-05T09:30:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-05-05 | |
dc.identifier | 278755240 | |
dc.identifier | 9ad938f2-90c8-4f68-aab5-6f550cbd07c0 | |
dc.identifier | 000792159700001 | |
dc.identifier | 85130712736 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Skotnes-Brown , J 2022 , ' Scurrying seafarers : shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border ' , Journal of Global History , vol. FirstView . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000158 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1740-0228 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-4072-0785/work/112711641 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/25280 | |
dc.description | This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust–funded project “The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis” (grant ID 217988/Z/19/Z). | en |
dc.description.abstract | This paper provides a broad overview of spatial, architectural, and sensory relationships between rats and humans on British and American vessels from approximately the 1850s-1950s. Taking rats as my primary historical actors, I show how humans attempted to prevent the movement of these animals between ports across three periods. Firstly, the mid- to- late-nineteenth century, where few attempts were made to prevent rats from boarding ships, and where a multiplicity of human/rat relationships can be located. Secondly, the 1890s-1920s, in which port authorities erected anti-rat borders to lock these animals on land or at sea. Finally, the 1920s-40s, where ships were reconstructed to eliminate all possibilities of rodent inhabitation and to interrupt their transit between ports. Ship rats, I argue, not only demonstrate the fragility of historical rodent-control efforts, but also provoke oceanic historians to consider how animals have negotiated and shaped boundaries between spheres of land and sea. | |
dc.format.extent | 23 | |
dc.format.extent | 1345376 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Global History | en |
dc.subject | Maritime history | en |
dc.subject | Medical history | en |
dc.subject | Rats | en |
dc.subject | Ships | en |
dc.subject | Oceanic history | en |
dc.subject | Animal history | en |
dc.subject | GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography | en |
dc.subject | D History General and Old World | en |
dc.subject | GN Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GF | en |
dc.subject.lcc | D | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GN | en |
dc.title | Scurrying seafarers : shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | The Wellcome Trust | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Social Anthropology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S1740022822000158 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 217988/Z/19/Z | en |
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