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

by Angela Thompsell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137494436
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	10/12/2015
Series:	Britain and the World
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	229
File size:	996 KB

About the Author

Angela Thompsell is Assistant Professor of British and African History at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgements xii

Introduction: Reconsidering Hunting as a Site of Masculine and Imperial Domination 1

1 Real Men/Savage Nature: The Rise of African Big Game Hunting, 1870-1914 12

2 'The Bitter Thraldom of Dependence': Negotiating the Hunt 42

3 Guns and Reeds: Africanizing British Big Game Hunting 73

4 Lady Lion Hunters: An Imperial Femininity 101

5 'To Make a Fetish of Roughing It': Reimagining Hunting in the Age of Safaris, 1900-1914 134

Conclusion: Imperial Mastery 159

Notes 167

Bibliography 198

Index 215

Editorial Reviews

Hunting Africa is a valuable tool for scholars who study late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. … Hunting Africa adds to the field of scholarship on imperial masculinity and femininity. Moreover, Thompsell’s thorough investigation of personal accounts, social contracts, and violence deepens our understanding of the fraught and complex relationship between colonizers and colonized.” (Precious Mckenzie, American Historical Review, February, 2017)

“Angela Thompsell’s Hunting Africa is relatively short at just over 150 pages of text … . The book touches on themes of gender, the social history of both African and colonial communities, the economics of hunting, and the image of Africa in British culture. … Hunting Africa was published by Palgrave Macmillan in conjunction with the British Scholar Society, which indicates that the audience is specialist historians of empire and gender … .” (Toby Harper, H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2016)

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