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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

Introduction. Doorsteps in Paradise -- Part I. Big Men, Big Game between Precolony and Colony -- Chapter 1. Tusks, Trust, and Trade -- Chapter 2. Seeing Like a State, Acting Like a Chief -- Part II. The Making of Tanzania's Wildlife Conservation Regime -- Chapter 3. Preserving the Hunt, Provoking a War -- Chapter 4. Colony or Zoological Garden? -- Chapter 5. The Imperial Game

We live in a present of multiple and conflicting sacralities. How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective.

We live in a present of multiple and conflicting sacralities. How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective

Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction: Cultural sovereignty -- claims, forms and contexts beyond the modern state --French imperial politics and the long shadow of Francophonie --Sovereignty in Miniature: The Mount Scopus Enclave, 1948-1967 --Sovereignty over diamond resources: (Re)-negotiating colonial contracts in Southern Africa --The people's own media: Workers representation in Czechoslovak Socialist Television --Contested sovereignties: The case of the "New World Information and Communication Order" at UNESCO in the 1970s --Digital sovereignty and approaches to governing globalized data spaces --Cultural sovereignty -- A conclusion in four theses --Forum --Data meets history: A research data management strategy for the historically oriented humanities --List of contributors