Hunting for Empire

Offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. focusing on nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert’s Land.

Greg Gillespie is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University.

John M. MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh:
This short work has much to commend it. For a start, it has an extremely clever title. […] Second, it is relatively concise, fluently written, and interestingly illustrated. And third, it has a thorough and valuable foreword (more substantial than many of the genre) by Graeme Wynn, the general editor of the Nature/ History/ Society series in which it appears ... This book would be of interest to all who work, on an international basis, on the relationship of Europeans to land, peoples, wildlife, and landscape. Where-as North American history is too often treated in isolation, here we have a serious attempt to set it into wider global phenomena.

Colin Coates, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Landscapes, York University:
An innovative examination of material not often covered in Canadian historiography ... By situating the discussion so effectively in the context of current work in cultural history, Hunting for Empire provides an excellent way of encouraging readers to examine published materials in a new light.

From the Foreword by Graeme Wynn:
A distinct contribution to a growing body of work interrogating the origins, character, and functioning of imperial knowledge systems in colonial spaces ... Neither unreflexively 'traditional' nor unabashedly deconstructionist in its approach, Hunting for Empire helps point the way toward a vigorous and vital history for the twenty-first century.