Nature of German Imperialism
Subtitle: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781785331756
Subjects: Wildlife conservation, africa
Description: 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. --