Description
Book SynopsisThis study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. In it, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters.
Table of ContentsHunting - themes and variations; the 19th-century hunting world; hunting and African societies; hunting and settlement in southern Africa; game and imperial rule in Central Africa; exploration, conquest and game in East Africa; the imperial hunt in India; from preservation to conservation - legislation and the international dimension; reserves and the tsetse controversy; national parks in Africa and Asia; shikar and safari - hunting and conservation in the British empire. Appendices: the game legislation of the African colonies and India; a colonoal game law - Northern Rhodesia, 1925; the membership of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire; game and the independent African state - the Arusha manifesto, 1961.
