Author: Marius MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African elephant
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa
Author: Marius MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African elephant
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa
Author: Marius MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African elephant
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa
Author: Marius MaxwellStalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa
Author: Marius MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African elephant
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Picturing Empire
Author: James R. RyanPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780231636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.
The empire of nature
Author: John M. MacKenziePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526119587
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
The Nation and Athenæum
Author: The Nation
Author: The Nation and the Athenaeum
Author: The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.