Book ID: CBB659789603

Hunting Africa: British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire (2015)

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Angela Thompsell (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 242
Language: English

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.

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Review Precious McKenzie (2017) Review of "Hunting Africa: British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire". American Historical Review (pp. 288-289). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tilley, Helen
Ashraf Wani, Mohd
Bhat, Rouf Ahmad
Sebastian Beese
Opolot-Okurut, Charles
Witz, Anne
Journals
Technology and Culture
Public Interest Report
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Indian Journal of History of Science
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Publishers
Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh
University of California, Riverside
McMaster University (Canada)
University of Chicago Press
Springer
Routledge
Concepts
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Medicine
Imperialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Public health
People
Hakluyt, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Early modern
21st century
17th century
Places
Africa
India
Ghana
Mauritius
Uganda
Nigeria
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