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Hunting for empire : narrative of sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70 / Greg Gillespie.

Title
Hunting for empire : narrative of sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70 / Greg Gillespie.
Author
Gillespie, Greg, 1973-
Publication
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

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xxvii, 172 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives from cultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyze the themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so he produces a unique theoretical lens through which to study nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Nature, history, society, 1713-6687
Uniform Title
Nature, history, society
Subject
  • 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
  • Chasse au gros gibier > Provinces des Prairies > Historie > 19e siècle
  • Britanniques > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle
  • Écrits de voyageurs britanniques > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
  • Impérialisme > Histoire > 19e siècle
  • Great Britain > History > America > 19th century
  • Rupert's Land > Description and travel
  • Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Amérique > 19e siècle
  • Terre de Rupert > Descriptions et voyages
Genre/Form
Electronic books
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-161) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
An imperial interior imagined -- The prefatory paradox: Positivism and authority in hunting narratives -- Cry havoc? British imperial hunting culture -- The science of the hunt: Map making, natural history, and acclimatization -- Hunting for landscape: Social class and the appropriation of the wilderness -- From colonial to corporate landscapes.
ISBN
  • 9780774813549
  • 0774813547
LCCN
^^2008378014
OCLC
1224113464
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library