Hunting for Empire

Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70

Greg Gillespie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2008
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1355-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Greg Gillespie is an assistant professor in theDepartment of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at BrockUniversity.

Contents

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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

Reihe/Serie	Nature
Zusatzinfo	17 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	304 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7748-1355-5 / 0774813555
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-1355-6 / 9780774813556
Zustand	Neuware