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

242 Pages·2015·3.603 MB·English

by  Angela Thompsell (auth.)

Hunting Africa
BRITAIN AND THE WORLD
Edited by The British Scholar Society
Editors:
James Onley, University of Exeter, UK
A. G. Hopkins, University of Cambridge
Gregory Barton, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Bryan Glass, Texas State University, USA
Richard C. Allen, University of South Wales, UK
Michelle D. Brock, Washington and Lee University, USA
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HUNTING AFRICA
British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire
Angela Thompsell
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Hunting Africa
British Sport, African Knowledge and the
Nature of Empire
Angela Thompsell
Assistant Professor of History, The College at Brockport, SUNY, USA
© Angela Thompsell 2015
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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