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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greer, Kirsten A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Redcoats and wild birds across the British Empire
  • Thomas Wright Blakiston : Crimean scientific war hero
  • Andrew Leith Adams : Mediterranean semi-tropicality
  • Howard Irby : British military ornithology on the "Rock"
  • Philip Savile Grey Reid : red coats and wild birds on the homefront
  • Military ornithology in place : territoriality, situated knowledges, and heterogeneities.

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