ISBN:
978-1-78533-175-6
,
978-1-78533-176-3/ebk
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 360 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
The _Environment in History 9
DDC:
333.95/409678
Keywords:
Tansania Deutsch-Ostafrika
;
Kolonialismus
;
Imperialismus
;
Kolonie, deutsch
;
Geschichte
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Artenvielfalt
;
Naturschutz
;
Ökologie
;
Wildtier
;
Jagd
;
Elefant
;
Elfenbein
;
Reservat
;
Nationalpark
;
Kenia
;
Kongo-Becken
;
Maji-Maji
;
Tourismus
;
Schillings, Carl Georg [Leben und Werk]
;
Wissmann, Hermann von [Leben und Werk]
;
Dar es Salaam 〈Stadt, Tansania〉
;
Kilimandscharo
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations, Figures, and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Measurements and Currencies -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Doorsteps in Paradise --Part I. Big Men, Big Game between Precolony and Colony -- Chapter 1 . Tusks, Trust, and Trade -- Chapter 2. Seeing Like a State, Acting Like a Chief -- Part II. The Making of Tanzania`s Wildlife Conservation Regime -- Chapter 3. Preserving the Hunt, Provoking a War -- Chapter 4. Colony or Zoological Garden? -- Chapter 5. The Imperial Game -- Part III. Spaces of Conservation between Metropole and Colony -- Chapter 6. Places of Deep Time -- Chapter 7. Rivalry and Stewardship -- Chapter 8. A Sense of Place -- Epilogue. Germany`s African Wildlife and the Presence of the Past -- Appendix. Synopsis of Game Ordinances in German East Africa, 1891-1914 -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [323]-347; [Based on the author's dissertation titled The Nature of Colonialism: Hunting, Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in the German Colonial Empire, Universität Mannheim, Philosophische Fakultät, 2009]
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