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...

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1. Verfasser: Greer, Kirsten A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Flows, migrations, and exchanges
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:xiv, 174 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm
ISBN:9781469649825
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