TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillespie,Greg
TI  - Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70
T2  - Nature History Society Series
SN  - 9780774855600
AV  - SK151 -- .G55 2007eb 
U1  - 799.2/6097109034 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - University of British Columbia Press
KW  - Big game hunting -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 19th century
KW  - British -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Travelers'' writings, British -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Rupert''s Land -- Description and travel
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3412578
ER  -