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About the Book
Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives from cultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyze the themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so he produces a unique theoretical lens through which to study nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert’s Land.
Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting for Empire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport, geography, and history, and to general readers interested in stories of hunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.
About the Author(s)
Greg Gillespie is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University.
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 Hunting Narratives
3 Cry Havoc? British Imperial Hunting Culture
4 The Science of the Hunt: Mapmaking, Natural History, and Acclimatization
5 Hunting for Landscape: Social Class and the Appropriation of the Wilderness
6 From Colonial to Corporate Landscapes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
This work provides an innovative examination of material not often covered in Canadian historiography. It brings together approaches and questions from sport history and cultural history … By situating the discussion so effectively in the context of current work in cultural history, the book provides an excellent way of encouraging readers to examine published materials in a new light.
– Colin Coates, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Landscapes, York University
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.
- John M. MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh, International History Review, xxx, 4, December 2008
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
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