Red Coats and Wild Birds : How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Greer, Kirsten A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Blakiston, Thomas Wright, > 1832-1891.
Ornithologists.
Geography.
British colonies.
Armed Forces > Officers.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > General.
Ornithologues > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Migratory birds > Social aspects > Mediterranean Region.
Ornithologists > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Biography.
Mediterranean Region.
Great Britain.
Mediterranee, Region de la > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Geographie.
Mediterranean Region > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Geography.
Great Britain > Armed Forces > Officers > History > 19th century > Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (190 pages).
ISBN:9781469649856

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