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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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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.

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).