The Nature of German Imperialism

Bernhard Gissibl is a permanent Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. He is co-editor of the volume Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective (Berghahn, 2012) and was awarded the Young Scholar’s Prize of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD).

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Introduction: Doorsteps in Paradise



PART I: BIG MEN, BIG GAME BETWEEN PRECOLONY AND COLONY



Chapter 1. Tusks, Trust, and Trade: Ecologies of Hunting in precolonial East Africa

Chapter 2. Seeing like a State, Acting like a Chief: The Colonial Politics of Ivory, 1890-1903



PART II: THE MAKING OF TANZANIA’S WILDLIFE CONSERVATION REGIME



Chapter 3. Preserving the Hunt, Provoking a War Wildlife Politics and Maji Maji

Chapter 4. Colony or Zoological Garden? Settlers, Science and the State

Chapter 5. The Imperial Game Rinderpest, Wildmord, and the Emperor’s Breakfast, 1910-1914



PART III: SPACES OF CONSERVATION BETWEEN METROPOLE AND COLONY



Chapter 6. Places of Deep Time the political Geography of colonial Wildlife Conservation

Chapter 7. Rivalry and Stewardship the Anglo-German origins of international wildlife preservation in Africa

Chapter 8. A Sense of Place Representations of Africa and environmental identities in Germany



Epilogue: Germany’s African Wildlife and the Presence of the Past



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