Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border

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 betw...

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Published in:Journal of global history 2023-03, Vol.18 (1), p.108-130
Main Author: Skotnes-Brown, Jules
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
20th century
Animals
Borders
Boundaries
Capitalism
Climbing
Historians
Humans
International agreements
Land
Ports
Rats
Rodents
Shipping industry
Ships
Swimming
Technological change
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