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Hunting for empire : narrative of sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70 /
"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 theor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver [B.C.] :
UBC Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Nature, history, society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.