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Author: Kirsten A. Greer
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781469649832
ISBN 10: 1469649837
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 30 November 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world. . . . [this] impressively informative and groundbreaking history . . . is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college and university library British Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies.--Midwest Book Review A powerful affirmation for the value of 'critical historical geography' (p.107), and how such work demonstrates the need to deconstruct the colonial imaginaries that continue to circulate within natural history and conservation debates today.--Journal of Historical Geography
Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world. . . . [this] impressively informative and groundbreaking history . . . is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college and university library British Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies.--Midwest Book Review
A powerful affirmation for the value of 'critical historical geography' (p.107), and how such work demonstrates the need to deconstruct the colonial imaginaries that continue to circulate within natural history and conservation debates today.--Journal of Historical Geography Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world. . . . [this] impressively informative and groundbreaking history . . . is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college and university library British Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies.--Midwest Book Review
Author Information
Kirsten A. Greer is assistant professor in the history and geography departments at Nipissing University.
