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- Book Title
- The Nature of German Imperialism
- Publication Name
- Nature of German Imperialism : Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
- Title
- The Nature of German Imperialism
- Subtitle
- Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1785331752
- EAN
- 9781785331756
- ISBN
- 9781785331756
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Science Nature & Math
- Release Date
- 01/07/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Series
- Environment in History: International Perspectives Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 374 Pages
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Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1785331752
ISBN-13
9781785331756
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219400289
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Nature of German Imperialism : Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Series
Environment in History: International Perspectives Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
374 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
9
Number of Volumes
22 Bks.
Lc Classification Number
Ql84.6.T3 G57 2016
Volume Number
Vol. 9
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"The Nature of German Imperialism is at once an analytic tour de force and an empirically rich and cogent account of wildlife conservation as an ideologically charged political activity rife with contradictions and denials...His grounding of German imperialism in the wider turn-of- the-century European intellectual and social history is a most welcome contribution to East African studies." * Finalist for the 2017 BETHWELL A. OGOT BOOK PRIZE of the African Studies Association "This exhaustively researched monograph is the first comprehensive study of wildlife conservation (especially elephants), big game-hunting, and early proposals for national parks and nature tourism in German East Africa...Scholars interested in the colonial origins of wildlife conservation in Tanzania will find The Nature of German Imperialism the best resource to date." * Modern Language Review "This is an impressive piece of scholarship. Painstaking in its detail, the book results from the intellectual labor needed to consult archives in four countries across two continents, comb through published sources in English and German, organize the analysis using political ecology, and situate this history in three distinct historiographies." * The International Journal of African Historical Studies "The very readable study invites giving some thought to the ecological and social consequences of the still popular construction of East Africa as a paradise for wild animals. Its historiographical significance is due to Gissibl's distancing himself from constructivist approaches and his conceptual preference for a 'critical realism'... Gissibl's study is from now on the central reference work for the history of wildlife protection during the German colonial period. For colonial rule is here consistently and logically interpreted from environmental-historical perspectives." * Sehepunkte "Upon completion of this book the reader easily captures the importance and complexities of conservation and wildlife policies in German East Africa. This has much to do with Gissibl's adept ability to tell layered and contextualized stories that ground themselves in the existing scholarship... Along the way the author also continually challenges widespread colonial myths by bringing in local African voices... Gissibl employs an impressively wide array of methodological tools as he helps bring the German colonial empire into a rather Anglophile environmental historiography." * Environmental History "Compellingly written and tightly argued, The Nature of German Imperialism will be of great interest to historians of Germany, imperialism and the environment. Present-day conservationists, too, will read it to their benefit." * Environment and History "This is a truly outstanding study of a topic that has been only tangentially treated in the literature. Gissibl draws upon an impressive body of evidence, weaving sources together seamlessly without letting the details occlude the main arguments and conceptual direction." * Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, "This exhaustively researched monograph is the first comprehensive study of wildlife conservation (especially elephants), big game-hunting, and early proposals for national parks and nature tourism in German East Africa...Scholars interested in the colonial origins of wildlife conservation in Tanzania will find The Nature of German Imperialism the best resource to date." Modern Language Review "This is an impressive piece of scholarship. Painstaking in its detail, the book results from the intellectual labor needed to consult archives in four countries across two continents, comb through published sources in English and German, organize the analysis using political ecology, and situate this history in three distinct historiographies." The International Journal of African Historical Studies "The very readable study invites giving some thought to the ecological and social consequences of the still popular construction of East Africa as a paradise for wild animals. Its historiographical significance is due to Gissibl's distancing himself from constructivist approaches and his conceptual preference for a 'critical realism'... Gissibl's study is from now on the central reference work for the history of wildlife protection during the German colonial period. For colonial rule is here consistently and logically interpreted from environmental-historical perspectives." Sehepunkte "Upon completion of this book the reader easily captures the importance and complexities of conservation and wildlife policies in German East Africa. This has much to do with Gissibl's adept ability to tell layered and contextualized stories that ground themselves in the existing scholarship... Along the way the author also continually challenges widespread colonial myths by bringing in local African voices... Gissibl employs an impressively wide array of methodological tools as he helps bring the German colonial empire into a rather Anglophile environmental historiography." Environmental History "Compellingly written and tightly argued, The Nature of German Imperialism will be of great interest to historians of Germany, imperialism and the environment. Present-day conservationists, too, will read it to their benefit." Environment and History "This is a truly outstanding study of a topic that has been only tangentially treated in the literature. Gissibl draws upon an impressive body of evidence, weaving sources together seamlessly without letting the details occlude the main arguments and conceptual direction." Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, "This is a truly outstanding study of a topic that has been only tangentially treated in the literature. Gissibl draws upon an impressive body of evidence, weaving sources together seamlessly without letting the details occlude the main arguments and conceptual direction." · Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, "The Nature of German Imperialism is at once an analytic tour de force and an empirically rich and cogent account of wildlife conservation as an ideologically charged political activity rife with contradictions and denials...His grounding of German imperialism in the wider turn-of- the-century European intellectual and social history is a most welcome contribution to East African studies." * Finalist for the 2017 BETHWELL A. OGOT BOOK PRIZE of the African Studies Association "The Nature of German Imperialism is an impeccably researched work of interdisciplinary imperialhistory that shifts the geographic and temporal frames of Germany's overseas empire, while making a compelling case that its relatively short-lived imperial enterprise continues to shape East African land-use patterns and cultures of conservation today." * German Studies Review "This exhaustively researched monograph is the first comprehensive study of wildlife conservation (especially elephants), big game-hunting, and early proposals for national parks and nature tourism in German East Africa...Scholars interested in the colonial origins of wildlife conservation in Tanzania will find The Nature of German Imperialism the best resource to date." * Modern Language Review "This is an impressive piece of scholarship. Painstaking in its detail, the book results from the intellectual labor needed to consult archives in four countries across two continents, comb through published sources in English and German, organize the analysis using political ecology, and situate this history in three distinct historiographies." * The International Journal of African Historical Studies "The very readable study invites giving some thought to the ecological and social consequences of the still popular construction of East Africa as a paradise for wild animals. Its historiographical significance is due to Gissibl's distancing himself from constructivist approaches and his conceptual preference for a 'critical realism'... Gissibl's study is from now on the central reference work for the history of wildlife protection during the German colonial period. For colonial rule is here consistently and logically interpreted from environmental-historical perspectives." * Sehepunkte "Upon completion of this book the reader easily captures the importance and complexities of conservation and wildlife policies in German East Africa. This has much to do with Gissibl's adept ability to tell layered and contextualized stories that ground themselves in the existing scholarship... Along the way the author also continually challenges widespread colonial myths by bringing in local African voices... Gissibl employs an impressively wide array of methodological tools as he helps bring the German colonial empire into a rather Anglophile environmental historiography." * Environmental History "Compellingly written and tightly argued, The Nature of German Imperialism will be of great interest to historians of Germany, imperialism and the environment. Present-day conservationists, too, will read it to their benefit." * Environment and History "This is a truly outstanding study of a topic that has been only tangentially treated in the literature. Gissibl draws upon an impressive body of evidence, weaving sources together seamlessly without letting the details occlude the main arguments and conceptual direction." * Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, "This is a truly outstanding study of a topic that has been only tangentially treated in the literature. Gissibl draws upon an impressive body of evidence, weaving sources together seamlessly without letting the details occlude the main arguments and conceptual direction." Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, "This is an impressive piece of scholarship. Painstaking in its detail, the book results from the intellectual labor needed to consult archives in four countries across two continents, comb through published sources in English and German, organize the analysis using political ecology, and situate this history in three distinct historiographies." The International Journal of African Historical Studies "The very readable study invites giving some thought to the ecological and social consequences of the still popular construction of East Africa as a paradise for wild animals. Its historiographical significance is due to Gissibl's distancing himself from constructivist approaches and his conceptual preference for a 'critical realism'... Gissibl's study is from now on the central reference work for the history of wildlife protection during the German colonial period. For colonial rule is here consistently and logically interpreted from environmental-historical perspectives." Sehepunkte "Upon completion of this book the reader easily captures the importance and complexities of conservation and wildlife policies in German East Africa. This has much to do with Gissibl's adept ability to tell layered and contextualized stories that ground themselves in the existing scholarship... Along the way the author also continually challenges widespread colonial myths by bringing in local African voices... Gissibl employs an impressively wide array of methodological tools as he helps bring the German colonial empire into a rather Anglophile environmental historiography." Environmental History "Compellingly written and tightly argued, The Nature of German Imperialism will be of great interest to historians of Germany, imperialism and the environment. Present-day conservationists, too, will read it to their benefit." Environment and History "This is a truly outstanding study of a topic that has been only tangentially treated in the literature. Gissibl draws upon an impressive body of evidence, weaving sources together seamlessly without letting the details occlude the main arguments and conceptual direction." Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, Africa / East
Lccn
2016-025399
Dewey Decimal
333.95409678
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Nature, History
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