Hunting for Empire

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

• ContentsFiguresForeword: Documenting the Exotic / Graeme WynnAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 An Imperial Interior Imagined2 The Prefatory Paradox: Positivism and Authority in HuntingNarratives3 Cry Havoc? British Imperial Hunting Culture4 The Science of the Hunt: Mapmaking, Natural History, andAcclimatization5 Hunting for Landscape: Social Class and the Appropriation ofthe Wilderness6 From Colonial to Corporate LandscapesNotesBibliographyIndex

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, 30, 4)