| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.2

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An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books, 1780–1980. Compiled by Kenneth P. Czech. St. Cloud, Minn.: Land's Edge Press, 2003. xviii + 254 pp. Plates, map, appendix, references, index. Cloth $65.00.

Big game hunting has long been a controversial topic. As such, books that extol the hunt and the virtues of the hunter have received little attention from academics or praise from literary critics. Much of the disdain for the hunt and the culture that has grown up around it is due to the explicit relationship between hunting and power. Hunters kill big beautiful animals and trophy hunting, in particular, is a privileged affair. Moreover, as Europe expanded its power across the globe, big game hunting became intimately intertwined with the various expressions of European power. Today, the "Great White Hunter" is one of the main icons of European imperial excess that has been duly vilified in postmodern discourses on race, gender, class, and nature.

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