This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania's wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation.
This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania's wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation.
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Environment in History: International Perspectives
Bernhard Gissibl is a permanent Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. He is co-editor of the volume Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective (Berghahn, 2012) and was awarded the Young Scholar's Prize of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD).
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations General Map Introduction: Doorsteps in Paradise PART I: BIG MEN, BIG GAME BETWEEN PRECOLONY AND COLONY Chapter 1. Tusks, Trust, and Trade: Ecologies of Hunting in precolonial East Africa Chapter 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 Chapter 3. Preserving the Hunt, Provoking a War Wildlife Politics and Maji Maji Chapter 4. Colony or Zoological Garden? Settlers, Science and the State Chapter 5. The Imperial Game Rinderpest, Wildmord, and the Emperor's Breakfast, 1910-1914 PART III: SPACES OF CONSERVATION BETWEEN METROPOLE AND COLONY Chapter 6. Places of Deep Time the political Geography of colonial Wildlife Conservation Chapter 7. Rivalry and Stewardship the Anglo-German origins of international wildlife preservation in Africa Chapter 8. A Sense of Place Representations of Africa and environmental identities in Germany Epilogue: Germany's African Wildlife and the Presence of the Past Select Bibliography Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations General Map Introduction: Doorsteps in Paradise PART I: BIG MEN, BIG GAME BETWEEN PRECOLONY AND COLONY Chapter 1. Tusks, Trust, and Trade: Ecologies of Hunting in precolonial East Africa Chapter 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 Chapter 3. Preserving the Hunt, Provoking a War Wildlife Politics and Maji Maji Chapter 4. Colony or Zoological Garden? Settlers, Science and the State Chapter 5. The Imperial Game Rinderpest, Wildmord, and the Emperor's Breakfast, 1910-1914 PART III: SPACES OF CONSERVATION BETWEEN METROPOLE AND COLONY Chapter 6. Places of Deep Time the political Geography of colonial Wildlife Conservation Chapter 7. Rivalry and Stewardship the Anglo-German origins of international wildlife preservation in Africa Chapter 8. A Sense of Place Representations of Africa and environmental identities in Germany Epilogue: Germany's African Wildlife and the Presence of the Past Select Bibliography Index
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