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Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert´s Land, 1840-70
Greg Gillespie
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Description for Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert´s Land, 1840-70
Hardback. Offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. focusing on nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land. Series: Nature, History, Society. Num Pages: 176 pages, 22 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBTB; WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 408.
Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sportand imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives fromcultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyzethe themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so heproduces a unique theoretical lens through which to studynineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narrativesfrom the western interior of Rupert’s Land.
Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting forEmpire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport,geography, and history, and to general readers interested in stories ofhunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Nature, History, Society
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774813549
SKU
V9780774813549
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About Greg Gillespie
Greg Gillespie is an assistant professor in theDepartment of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at BrockUniversity.
Reviews for Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert´s Land, 1840-70
This short work has much to commend it. For a start, it has an extremely clever title. […] Second, it is relatively concise, fluently written, and interestingly illustrated. And third, it has a thorough and valuable foreword (more substantial than many of the genre) by Graeme Wynn, the general editor of the Nature/ History/ Society series in which it appears ... Read more