Description
Book SynopsisOffers 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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. -- John M. MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh * International History Review, 30, 4 *
Table of ContentsContents
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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
