Dodo

This cover features a painting of a Dodo, along with other birds and plants, by Ustad Mansur, a 17th-century Indian painter and naturalist who served as a court artist in the Mughal Empire. As argued in an article in this issue, the functioning of the Mughal Empire was made possible not only by human activities but also through the involvement of various nonhuman animals and species. This painting was therefore chosen to reflect the intimate and entangled relationships between humans and nonhumans in historical processes that characterize multispecies history.

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