Bernhard Gissibl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz. His PhD dissertation explored the history of hunting and wildlife conservation in colonial Tanzania and is forthcoming with Berghahn under the title The Nature of German Imperialism. Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in colonial East Africa.

Preface

List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards a Global History of National Parks
Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler, Patrick Kupper

PART I: PARKS AND EMPIRES

Chapter 1. Unpacking Yellowstone: The American National Park in Global Perspective
Karen Jones

Chapter 2. How National Were the First National Parks? Comparative Perspectives from the British Settler Societies
Melissa Harper and Richard White

Chapter 3. Imperial Preservation and Landscape Reclamation: National Parks and Natural Reserves in French Colonial Africa
Caroline Ford

Chapter 4. From Colonial Imposition to National Icon: Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells

Chapter 5. A Bavarian Serengeti: Space, race and time in the entangled history of nature conservation in East Africa and Germany
Bernhard Gissibl

PART II: ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS

Chapter 6. Translating Yellowstone: Early European National Parks, Weltnaturschutz and the Swiss Model
Patrick Kupper

Chapter 7. Framing the Heritage of Mankind: National Parks on the International Agenda
Anna-Katharina Wöbse

Chapter 8. Global Values, Local Politics: Inuit Internationalism and the Establishment of Northern Yukon National Park
Brad Martin

Chapter 9. Demarcating Wilderness and Disciplining Wildlife: Radiotracking Large Carnivores in Yellowstone and ChitwanNational Parks
Etienne Benson

PART III: NATIONS AND NATURES

Chapter 10. A Revolutionary Civilization: National Parks, Transnational Exchanges, and the Construction of Modern Mexico
Emily Wakild

Chapter 11. Parks without Wilderness, Wilderness without Parks? Assigning National Park status to Dutch Man-made Landscapes and Colonial Game Reserves
Henny van der Windt

Chapter 12. Globalizing Nature: National Parks, Tiger Reserves, and Biosphere Reserves in Independent India
Michael Lewis

Chapter 13. Slovenia's Triglav National Park: From Imperial Borderland to National Ethnoscape
Carolin Firouzeh Roeder

Epilogue: National Parks, Civilization and Globalization
Jane Carruthers

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