Red coats and wild birds : how military ornithologists and migrant birds shaped empire /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
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Table of 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.