Consuming Ivory by Alexandra Celia Kelly PAPERBACK 9780295748818

Consuming IvoryMercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England\nAuthor(s): Alexandra Celia Kelly, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295748818, 978-0295748818\nSynopsis\nExamines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like Ivoryton and Deep River, Connecticut, thrived, the African ivory trade left in its wake massive human exploitation and ecological devastation. At the same time, dynamic East African engagement with capitalism and imperialism took place within these trade histories.\n\nDrawing from extensive archival and field research in New England, Great Britain, and Tanzania, Alexandra Kelly investigates .