‘I Was Well Pleased with Our Sport among the Buffalo’: Big-Game Hunters, Travel Writing, and Cultural Imperialism in the British North American West, 1847-72

Gillespie, Greg

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“…The upper and middle classes were encouraged to travel in search of natural scenes and appreciate them in accordance with the picturesque's specific framework (Whyte, 2002). Thus, when traveling in foreign territories, English tourists actively sought picturesque landscapes (Gillespie, 2002). Many such tourists also drew upon the concept in the detailed landscape descriptions included in their narratives.…”

Section: Tourism Development In the Caribbeanmentioning

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Traces of the Past: The Cycle of Expectation in Caribbean Tourism Representations

Nelson

2007

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Tourism representations can be highly influential and extremely pervasive. This paper investigates the origins of the vivid imagery common in today's Caribbean tourism representations. The 99-year period from 1815 to 1914 was a key era in the development of tourism for the British West Indies with increased geopolitical stability, improved transportation, and increased demand for new tourism experiences. With the growing popularity of travel, as well as the popularity of travel writing as a genre in British literature, more people travelled to the region as tourists and wrote about their experiences. The detailed descriptions and illustrations in travel narratives created popular geographies about the islands. Tourists were both potential consumers and producers of these popular geographies. They frequently read travel literature prior to and during travel, thereby carrying images with them to recreate the experiences described. Some also chose to write their own travel narratives, thereby reaffirming the imagery of the Caribbean. Narratives were further cited in travel guides and regional geographies, effectively extending their influence. This pattern became a cycle of expectation, in which ideas about the region were established and perpetuated. As a result, evidence of past representations may be seen in those of the present.

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Section: Tourism Development In the Caribbeanmentioning

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Traces of the Past: The Cycle of Expectation in Caribbean Tourism Representations

Nelson

2007

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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“…In addition to describing the channels, shoals, and reefs of the river, they provided a description of land use by presenting the paths, villages, buildings, and cleared land that navigators used as landmarks (Figure ). These cartographic details, whose aim was to facilitate navigation, also conveyed the vitality of the colony, thus participating in the construction of a British imperial landscape (Pratt ; Crowley ), through “cultural representations whereby empire builders sought to demonstrate the innocence of the imperial enterprise while simultaneously underscoring appropriation and domination of foreign lands” (Gillespie , 569). Despite the violence and dispossession that accompanied the Conquest, the maps suggested that the colonial people of the St. Lawrence valley were thriving, as witnessed by the landmarks that reflected their industries and communal organizations.…”

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Cartographic productions and historiographical representations: Geographical imaginations of the St. Lawrence River

Castonguay

2016

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Centre interuniversitaire d' etudes qu eb ecoises, Universit e du Qu ebec a Trois-Rivi eres Key MessagesHistorical geographers and historians have represented the St. Lawrence River either as a trade route for continental exploration or as an artery structuring European settlement.A study of historical maps shows that rather than succeeding each other, these two functions continually co-existed in the geographical imaginations of cartographers.The paper suggests areas of potential collaboration between geography and history to question the fluvial relationships of a colonial society and understand its spatial representations.Historical geographers and historians have represented the St. Lawrence River either as a trade route for continental exploration or as an artery structuring European settlement. While the river itself is a clearly defined entity, the fluvial space varies in size, sometimes limited to the St. Lawrence Valley, sometimes including the Canadian Shield, and sometimes even extending to the entire North American continent and embracing the Atlantic World. This shift in scale can also be found in the cartographic productions that accompanied the use of the river. In this paper, I examine the scales and functions of the St. Lawrence River by scrutinizing historical maps of the 18th and 19th centuries and comparing them to the spatial conceptualization of the St. Lawrence River found in Canadian historiography. I explore whether the geographical imagination of different societies as reconstructed by historians-in New France, under the British Regime, and after Confederation-resonates in historical maps, with the goal of demonstrating that the two historical functions of the river are juxtaposed in time and space on cartographic productions rather than simply succeeding each other, as implied by historical representation. Association canadienne des g eographes epoquesen Nouvelle-France et sous le r egime britannique, puis au lendemain de la Conf ed erationtel que recompos e par les historiens trouve, ou non, une r esonance sur les cartes d' epoque. Il appert que les doubles fonctions historiques du fleuve se juxtaposent dans le temps et dans l'espace cartographique, plutôt que de se succ eder simplement comme le sous-tend la production historiographique.

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‘I Was Well Pleased with Our Sport among the Buffalo’: Big-Game Hunters, Travel Writing, and Cultural Imperialism in the British North American West, 1847-72

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

Traces of the Past: The Cycle of Expectation in Caribbean Tourism Representations

Traces of the Past: The Cycle of Expectation in Caribbean Tourism Representations

Cartographic productions and historiographical representations: Geographical imaginations of the St. Lawrence River

Gentrification as space domestication. The High Line Art case

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