Hunting for Empire
Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70
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Product details:
- Publisher UBC Press
- Date of Publication 1 July 2008
- ISBN 9780774813556
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 304 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 b&w photos 0
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Short description:
Offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. focusing on nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert?s Land.
MoreLong description:
Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sportand imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives fromcultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyzethe themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so heproduces a unique theoretical lens through which to studynineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narrativesfrom the western interior of Rupert?s Land.
Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting forEmpire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport,geography, and history, and to general readers interested in stories ofhunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.
This short work has much to commend it. For a start, it has an extremely clever title. [?] Second, it is relatively concise, fluently written, and interestingly illustrated. And third, it has a thorough and valuable foreword (more substantial than many of the genre) by Graeme Wynn, the general editor of the Nature/ History/ Society series in which it appears ... This book would be of interest to all who work, on an international basis, on the relationship of Europeans to land, peoples, wildlife, and landscape. Where-as North American history is too often treated in isolation, here we have a serious attempt to set it into wider global phenomena. More
Table of Contents:
Contents
Figures
Foreword: Documenting the Exotic / Graeme Wynn
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 An Imperial Interior Imagined
2 The Prefatory Paradox: Positivism and Authority in HuntingNarratives
3 Cry Havoc? British Imperial Hunting Culture
4 The Science of the Hunt: Mapmaking, Natural History, andAcclimatization
5 Hunting for Landscape: Social Class and the Appropriation ofthe Wilderness
6 From Colonial to Corporate Landscapes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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