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A Passion for Birds American Ornithology after Audubon.
"In the decades following the Civil War - as industrialization, urbanization, and economic expansion increasingly reshaped the landscape - many Americans began seeking adventure and aesthetic gratification through avian pursuits. By the turn of the century, hundreds of thousands of middle- and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The Culture of Collecting
- Roosevelt's Museum
- The Culture of Collecting
- Quantitative Dimensions
- Collecting Conflicts
- Chapter Two: Desiderata: Bird Collecting and Community
- Recruiting Ridgway
- Early American Collections
- Collecting Networks
- Serial Collecting
- Sporting Naturalists
- Collecting and Identification Guides
- Perilous Pursuits
- Women Ornithologists
- Chapter Three: Forging Boundaries, Creating Occupational Space
- The Gathering
- The Nuttall Club
- Creating the AOU
- Amateurs and the AOU
- Forging a Profession I
- Forging a Profession II
- The Shufeldt Affair
- Membership Redux
- Chapter Four: Nomenclatural Reform and the Quest for Standards and Stability
- Disciplining Ornithology
- The Geography of Species
- The ""American"" Subspecies Concept
- The AOU and Nomenclatural Reform
- Plain English
- Trinomial Woes
- Chapter Five: Embracing and Abandoning Bird Protection
- Chapman's Parakeets
- Discovering Extinction
- Embracing Bird Protection
- Grinnell's A udubon Society
- Critics of Conseiyation
- Permit Perturbations
- Abandoning Bird Protection
- Chapter Six: Protecting Birds, Protecting Ornithologists
- Reviving the Movement
- Dutcher's Push for Protection
- Redefining Ornithology
- Conserve the Collector
- A Crisis in Conservation
- Renewing the Conservation Commitment
- Chapter Seven: Birdwatchers, Scientists, and the Politics of Vision
- Cooperation and Conflict
- A Field Guide to Birdwatching
- Constructing Obsen'ational Networks
- Birdwatching, Bird Banding, and the Biological Survey
- Cooperative Life-History Studies
- The Problem of Sight Records
- Palmer's Qualms
- Chapter Eight: Reforming American Ornithology
- The State of the Union
- Graduate Training in Ornithology
- Enter Ernst Mayr
- Making Space for Nice
- Reforming the AOU
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index