Hunting Africa

British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-10-12
Mått140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBritain and the World
Antal sidor229
Upplaga2015
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137494429

Tillhör följande kategorier

Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
Jakt inom Sport, fritid och hobby
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

"Angela Thompsell's Hunting Africa is relatively short at just over 150 pages of text ... . The book touches on themes of gender, the social history of both African and colonial communities, the economics of hunting, and the image of Africa in British culture. ... Hunting Africa was published by Palgrave Macmillan in conjunction with the British Scholar Society, which indicates that the audience is specialist historians of empire and gender ... ." (Toby Harper, H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2016)