Download or read book The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing written by Terrence L. Craig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing provides an overview of Kenyan literature by white writers in the half-century before Independence in 1964. Such literature has been over-shadowed by that of black writers to the point of critical ostracism. It deserves attention for its own sake, as the expression of a community that hoped for permanence but suffered both disappointment and dispossession. It deserves attention for its articulation of an increasingly desperate colonial and Imperial situation at a time when both were being attacked and abandoned in Africa, as in other colonies elsewhere, and when a counter-discourse was being constructed by writers in Britain as well as in Africa. Kenya was likely the best-known twentieth-century colony, for it attracted publicity for its iconic safaris and its Happy Valley scandals. Yet behind such scenes were settlers who had taken over lands from the native peoples and who were trying to make a future for themselves, based on the labour, willing or forced, of those people. This situation can be seen as a microcosm of one colonial exercise, and can illuminate the historical tensions of such times. The bibliography is an attempt to collect the literary resources of white Kenya in this historically significant period.
Download or read book Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire written by Corey Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our world today, and how they were related to broader social, cultural, and political developments in Europe's colonies. Covering the overseas empires of all the major European powers, Corey Ross argues that tropical environments were not merely a stage on which conquest and subjugation took place, but were an essential part of the colonial project, profoundly shaping the imperial enterprise even as they were shaped by it. The story he tells is not only about the complexities of human experience, but also about people's relationship with the ecosystems in which they were themselves embedded: the soil, water, plants, and animals that were likewise a part of Europe's empire. Although it shows that imperial conquest rarely represented the signal ecological trauma that some accounts suggest, it nonetheless demonstrates that modern imperialism marked a decisive and largely negative milestone for the natural environment. By relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts that they entailed, this book provides a historical perspective on the vital nexus of social, political, and environmental issues that we face in the twenty-first-century world.
Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 to 1950 written by Kenneth P. Czech and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Papers from the Department of Biology of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Hunters written by Brian Herne and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Herne's White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: the sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." White Hunters re-creates the legendary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories, and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, they inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.
Download or read book Saben s Commercial Directory and Handbook of Uganda written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reminiscences of an Elephant Hunter written by W. D.M. Bell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a rehash of Karamojo Safari, Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, or Incidents from an Elephant Hunter's Diary. This is Bell's life story, and it includes about 60 percent more material than can be found in Bell of Africa. The chapters in this book are presented in chronological order, in Bell's own words. Now, for the first time, it will be possible for Bell aficionados to place the hunting stories from the first three books listed above into the framework of Bell's life.
Download or read book Program of African Studies Collection written by Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Negro Collection of the Fisk University Library Nashville Tennessee written by Fisk University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pokot Pastoralism written by Hauke-Peter Vehrs and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects.
Download or read book Bror Blixen in Tanganyika written by poul bæk pedersen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bror Blixen was one of the great figures of East Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. This book follow Bror Blixen in the period when he was based in Northern Tanganyika in the magnificant landscape of volcanoes and The Great Rift Valley. In this book these landscapes and its game are connected with the many different safaris Bror Blixen was the leader of. In addition, many other famous hunters and people like Ernest Hemigway, Denys Finch-Hatton and Beryl Markham are associated with Bror Blixen ́s life in Africa.
Download or read book Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History 59 82 59 9 9 written by American Museum of Natural History. Library and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Biology written by Raymond Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Recent literature useful in the study of human biology."
