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The nature of German imperialism : conservation and the politics of wildlife in colonial East Africa /
Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full ac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2016.
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| Colección: | Environment in history ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Doorsteps in Paradise
- Part I. Big men, big game between precolony and colony. 1. Tusks, trust, and trade: Ecologies of hunting in precolonial East Africa ; 2. Seeing like a state, acting like a chief: The colonial politics of Ivory, 1890-1903
- Part II. The making of Tanzania's wildlife conservation regime. 3. Preserving the hunt, provoking a war: Wildlife politics and Maji Maji ; 4. Colony or zoological garden?: Settlers, science, and the state ; 5. The Imperial Game: Rinderpest, Wildmord, and the Emperor's breakfast, 1910-14
- Part III. Spaces of conservation between metropole and colony. 6. Places of deep time: The political geography of colonial wildlife conservation ; 7. Rivalry and stewardship: The Anglo-German origins of International Wildlife Conservation in Africa ; 8. A sense of place: Representations of Africa and environmental identities in Germany
- Epilogue. Germany's African Wildlife and the Presence of the Past
- Appendix. Synopsis of Game Ordinances in German East Africa, 1891-1914.