The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation, and British Imperialism

Studies in Imperialism

by John M. MacKenzie

1988 1st Manchester University Press and St. Martins. ISBN 0-7190-2227-4. Hardcover. Octavo, 340pp., illustrations, red cloth. Near Fine, tiny residue of price tag on endpaper, in Near Fine DJ, spine a bit faded.

Genres: Environment, History

320 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1988

About the author

John M. MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of imperial history at Lancaster University and holds honorary professorships at the University of Aberdeen, St. Andrew and Edinburgh. He has published on many aspects of the cultural and environmental history of the British Empire. He edited the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism series for thirty years. He was Editor-in-Chief of the four volume Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Empire and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Britain in the World.

Reviews

[Shyamal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential reading in the history of natural history, glad to see that some of these old books are being brought out in digital editions for the new audience as well as folks like me who can hardly find accessible libraries worth their name within a 1000 kilometre radius.

[Dipika · Rating 4 out of 5]

Looks at the ideologies and practices of hunting in Africa and Asia.