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Red Coats and Wild Birds

Author : Kirsten A. Greer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469649845
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Red Coats and Wild Birds written by Kirsten A. Greer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Greer examines the lives, writings, and collections of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds simultaneously shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it. 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.

Taking the Field

Author : Amy Kohout
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496234316
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Taking the Field written by Amy Kohout and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make “progress.” Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play. In Taking the Field Amy Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the time. By tracking the variety of ways American soldiers interacted with the natural world, Kohout argues that soldiers, through their words and their work, shaped Progressive Era ideas about both American and Philippine environments. Studying soldiers on multiple frontiers allows Kohout to inject a transnational perspective into the environmental history of the Progressive Era, and an environmental perspective into the period’s transnational history. Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.

Flora's Fieldworkers

Author : Ann Shteir
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013461
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Flora's Fieldworkers written by Ann Shteir and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field. Flora’s Fieldworkers employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and abundant artwork to reconstruct the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century. It features figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in Ontario and Australia – most of whom were scarcely visible in the historical record – who were active in “plant work” as collectors, writers, artists, craft workers, teachers, and organizers. Understood as an appropriate pastime for genteel ladies, botany offered women pathways to scientific education, financial autonomy, and self-expression. The call for more diverse voices in the present must look to the past as well. Bringing botany to historians and historians to botany, Flora’s Fieldworkers gathers compelling material about women in colonial and imperial Canada and Australia to take a new look at how we came to know what we know about plants.

The Wild Birds

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092110
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Wild Birds written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these.” —People As part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include “Thicker Than Liquor”, “Where Did They Go?”, “It Wasn't Me”, “The Boundary”, “That Distant Land”, and the titular “The Wild Birds.” Spanning more than three decades, from 1930 to 1967, these wonderful stories follow Wheeler Catlett, and reintroduce readers to the beloved people who live in Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky.

Empires of Panic

Author : Robert Peckham
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208446
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Empires of Panic written by Robert Peckham and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplification of local panics into global events? Engaging with these questions, the book challenges conventional histories to show how intensifying processes of intelligence gathering did not consolidate empire, but rather served to produce critical uncertainties—the uneven terrain of imperial panic. Robert Peckham is associate professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. "Charting the relays of rumor and knowledge that stoke colonial fears of disease, disorder, and disaster, Empires of Panic offers timely and cautionary insight into how viscerally epidemics inflame imperial anxieties, and how words and their communication over new technologies accelerate panic, rally government intervention, and unsettle and entrench the exercise of global power. Relevant a century ago and even more so today." — Nayan Shah, University of Southern California; author ofContagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown "Empires generated anxiety as much as ambition. This fine study focuses on anxieties generated by disease. It is the first book of its kind to track shifting forms of panic through different geopolitical regimes and imperial formations over the course of two centuries. Working across medical and imperial histories, it is a major contribution to both." — Andrew S. Thompson, University of Exeter; author of Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850–1914(with Gary B. Magee)

Writing imperial histories

Author : Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611254X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Writing imperial histories written by Andrew S. Thompson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial history, with a particular focus on the cultural readings of empire that have flourished over the last generation. When the Studies in Imperialism series was founded, the discipline of Imperial history was at what was probably its lowest ebb. A quarter of a century on, there has been a tremendous broadening of the scope of what the study of empire encompasses. Essays in the volume consider ways in which the series and the wider historiography have sought to reconnect British and imperial histories; to lay bare the cultural expressions and registers of colonial power; and to explore the variety of experiences the home population derived from the empire.

Wild Birds Through the Year

Author : George Albemarle Bertie Dewar
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290182522
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Wild Birds Through the Year written by George Albemarle Bertie Dewar and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Maryland Conservationist

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Maryland Conservationist written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Country Life

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Country Life Illustrated

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

“The” Revised Statutes, Codes and General Laws of the State of New York ... in Force on January 1st, 1902 ...

Author : New York (State)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1710 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book “The” Revised Statutes, Codes and General Laws of the State of New York ... in Force on January 1st, 1902 ... written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farm and Garden

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farm and Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wild, Beautiful Places

Author : National Geographic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426217404
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Wild, Beautiful Places written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Geographic photography captures the world's most remote, exotic places in this visually stunning travel book full of scenic wonders to experience. Highlighting 50 of Earth's most pristine, scenic locales, this beautiful book is illustrated with stunning images, coupled with accessible, engaging descriptions and practical travel information. The book covers everything from otherworldly, secluded valleys to far-flung, soaring mountain ranges. National Geographic photographers share some of their favorite shots from around the world and explain how they got them, and historical photos culled from National Geographic's hallowed image archive highlight old Society explorations in rugged, distant locations, and give a glimpse into the bygone days of these exotic places.

Catalogue of the Library at Cornbury, March 1917

Author : Vernon James Watney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library at Cornbury, March 1917 written by Vernon James Watney and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal

Author : Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Journal written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Author : Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1410 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wildlife of the World

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744046343
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Wildlife of the World written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the full force of nature with this stunning visual encyclopedia celebrating the world’s most wonderful wildlife. With an inspiring foreword by leading naturalist and wildlife photographer Chris Packham, this epic adventure takes you across the continents to meet all creatures big and small. You’ll visit the deserts of Australia, the grasslands of Africa, the rainforests of South America, the mountains of Asia, and the coral reefs of Australia on this mind-blowing tour to meet the incredibly diverse range of life on Earth. Breathtaking photography, animal profiles, accessible maps, and facts and stats combine to create this standout reference title. Revealing a wealth of species across hundreds of spectacular pages, Wildlife of the World introduces you to animals that roam, swim, and fly in each and every part of our planet. Calling all globe-trotters, nature enthusiasts, and biology students, this is your chance to experience the animal kingdom as never before and gain an absolutely essential addition to your home library. Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution.