Overview
- Covers uniquely broad geographic and temporal frames—five countries and the entire twentieth century
- Documents how major shifts in the twentieth century shaped African wildlife governance in enduring ways
- Highlights the roles of figures such as imperial and global advocates, game wardens, park managers, hunters, farmers, nationalists, and missionaries
- Appeals to scholars of African history, imperial history, colonialism and postcolonial studies, and environmental history
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Wildlife Policy in Africa
- Decolonization in Africa
- Colonialism in Africa
- Conservation in Africa
- Environmental history of Africa
- Imperial Wildlife Conservation
- International Ivory trade
- Community Conservation
- Wildlife Management
- British empire
- Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire
- decolonization in Africa
- African wildlife
- African national parks
- Tsavo Project
- neoliberal institutions
- World Bank
- colonial wildlife policies
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Reviews
“Wildlife between Empire and Nation makes for interesting reading and provides with a compelling birds-eye perspective on how the politics and policies of wildlife in Africa were subject to varied twists and turns during Eastern Africa’s troubled phases of colonialism, nationalism, decolonization, and the recent neoliberal ideological shift. It further underlines the importance of local control over resources while also serving a salutary warning against the idea of managing nature principally as a global trust.” (Rohan D’Souza, Journal of British Studies, May 12, 2020)
“A worthy contribution to the history of wildlife conservation in Africa. It should not only interest scholars in disciplines like anthropology, ecology, geography, history, and political science, but also conservationists and general readers. Indeed, this lucid and well-documented work aptly advances the debate on wildlife conservation not just in Africa, but also more broadly.” (Reuben Matheka, Associate Professor of History, Egerton University, Kenya)“This is an ambitious book that more than meets its promise. Jeff Schauer’s painstaking research on five African countries reveals the way in which wildlife conservation ideas and personnel circulated in the region and produced unique regimes embedded in their time and place. At the heart of these circulations are African workers and politicians managing a resource in which global audiences have been—and remain—invested.” (Julie Weiskopf, Assistant Professor of History, Gonzaga University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa
Authors: Jeff Schauer
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02883-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02882-4Published: 17 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02883-1Published: 04 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 284
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: African History, Imperialism and Colonialism, African Politics, Nature Conservation