Description
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.
About the Author
Kirsten A. Greer is assistant professor in the history and geography departments at Nipissing University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469649832
Author Kirsten A. Greer
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press