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Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert’s Land, 1840-70 (Nature | History | Society)

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Regardless of Canada’s vast wilderness and outside heritage, the history of sport hunting remains on the periphery of academic thought. Hunting for Empire writes sport hunting into Canadian scholarship and provides a place to begin for further study.

Hunting for Empire offers a cultural history of sport and imperialism as revealed through 19th-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert’s Land. Greg Gillespie integrates essential perspectives from cultural history, cultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to investigate the themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. Blending these interdisciplinary perspectives, he produces a unique theoretical lens to review narratives of early imperial sport hunting that prevailed before the upward thrust of western Canada’s hunting tourism industry within the late 19th century.

Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting for Empire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport, geography, and history, and to general readers curious about stories of hunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.

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