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Red coats and wild birds : how military ornithologists and migrant birds shaped empire / Kirsten A. Greer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greer, Kirsten A., author.
- Series:
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blakiston, Thomas Wright, 1832-1891.
- Blakiston, Thomas Wright.
- Ornithologists--Great Britain--History--19th century--Biography.
- Ornithologists.
- Migratory birds--Social aspects--Mediterranean Region.
- Migratory birds.
- History.
- Armed Forces.
- Social aspects.
- Great Britain--Armed Forces--Officers--History--19th century--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Geography.
- Colonies.
- Geography.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Mediterranean Region--History--19th century.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Armed Forces--Officers.
- British colonies.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power and secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Red coats and wild birds across the British Empire
- Thomas Wright Blakiston : Crimean scientific war hero
- Andrew Leith Adams : Mediterranean semitropicality
- Leonard Howard Lloyd Irby : British military ornithology on the "Rock"
- Philip Savile Grey Reid : red coats and wild birds on the home front
- Military ornithology in place : territoriality, situated knowledges, and heterogeneities
- Afterword. Avian colonial afterlives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469649825
- 1469649829
- 9781469649832
- 1469649837
- OCLC:
- 1104920264
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