Hunting for Empire : Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70.
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TextSeries: Nature History Society SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780774855600
- Big game hunting -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 19th century
- British -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
- Travelers'' writings, British -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 19th century
- Rupert''s Land -- Description and travel
- 799.2/6097109034
- SK151 -- .G55 2007eb
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword: Documenting the Exotic -- 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: Map Making, 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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.
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