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Red coats and wild birds : how military ornithologists and migrant birds shaped empire / Kirsten A. Greer.

Author/creator Greer, Kirsten A. author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice ©2020
Descriptionxiv, 174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges
Flows, migrations, and exchanges. ^A1347336
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2019019412
ISBN9781469649825 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN1469649829 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN9781469649832 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN1469649837 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

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