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).

"The Nature of German Imperialism is an impeccably researched work of interdisciplinary imperialhistory that shifts the geographic and temporal frames of Germany's overseas empire, while making a compelling case that its relatively short-lived imperial enterprise continues to shape East African land-use patterns and cultures of conservation today." German Studies Review

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsGeneral MapIntroduction: Doorsteps in ParadisePART I: BIG MEN, BIG GAME BETWEEN PRECOLONY AND COLONYChapter 1. Tusks, Trust, and Trade: Ecologies of Hunting in Precolonial East AfricaChapter 2. Seeing Like a State, Acting Like a Chief: The Colonial Politics of Ivory, 1890-1903PART II: THE MAKING OF TANZANIA'S WILDLIFE CONSERVATION REGIMEChapter 3. Preserving the Hunt, Provoking a War Wildlife Politics and Maji MajiChapter 4. Colony or Zoological Garden? Settlers, Science and the StateChapter 5. The Imperial Game Rinderpest, Wildmord, and the Emperor's Breakfast, 1910-1914PART III: SPACES OF CONSERVATION BETWEEN METROPOLE AND COLONYChapter 6. Places of Deep Time the Political Geography of Colonial Wildlife ConservationChapter 7. Rivalry and Stewardship the Anglo-German Origins of International Wildlife Preservation in AfricaChapter 8. A Sense of Place Representations of Africa and Environmental Identities in GermanyEpilogue: Germany's African Wildlife and the Presence of the PastSelect BibliographyIndex