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EPISODE · Jul 30, 2015

Elephants and Kings; Foods for Survival

from Modern Notion · host Emma Morgenstern

This hour of Modern Notion Daily, our guest is Thomas Trautmann, author of Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Trautmann looks at the fascinating history behind how and why elephants were first tamed for use in battle, from more than two thousand years ago until the Vietnam War. Later in…

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This hour of Modern Notion Daily, our guest is Thomas Trautmann, author of Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Trautmann looks at the fascinating history behind how and why elephants were first tamed for use in battle, from more than two thousand years ago until the Vietnam War. Later in the hour, Mark Hay joins us to give us his top five list of foods to stock up on for the apocalypse. Music this hour: “Soldiertype (militarised)” by Ketsa, from the album What’s Without’s Within “Superconductivity” by Jahzzar, from the album Kuddelmuddel

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