To the Halls of Europe: Theodore Roosevelt’s African Jaunt and the Campaign to Save Nature by Killing It
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Theodore Roosevelt’s nearly year-long African tour from Mombasa, British East Africa to Egypt (1909-1910) is best seen not as a diversion from his presidential objectives, but a perpetuation of the key causes advanced during his presidency, and a prelude to his trip to lecture Europeans on the conduct of empire. The trip is best understood not as a hunting expedition, a post-presidential vacation, or a striving to reincarnate frontier masculinity. It was a calculated media event, drawing attention to his causes: especially conservation of nature and the American role as an emerging world power. His trip had geo-political significance in asserting the importance of a white 'settler' form of conservation in Africa and elsewhere as part of Anglo-American hegemony of the world.
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