Field Ornithology
Author | : Elliott Coues |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Birds |
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Author | : Elliott Coues |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Birds |
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Author | : Andrea L. Smalley |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421443414 |
A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the stage for conservation and its legislation. Between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s, the United States witnessed the creation, rapid expansion, and then disappearance of a commercial market for hunted wild animals. The bulk of commercial wildlife sales in the last part of the nineteenth century were of wildfowl, who were prized not only for their eggs and meat but also for their beautiful feathers. Wild birds were brought to cities in those years to be sold as food for customers' tables, decorations for ladies' hats, treasured pets, and specimens for collectors' cabinets. Though relatively short-lived, this market in birds was broadly influential, its rise and fall coinciding with the birth of the Progressive Era conservation movement. In The Market in Birds, historian Andrea L. Smalley and wildlife biologist Henry M. Reeves illuminate this crucial chapter in American environmental history. Touching on ecology, economics, law, and culture, the authors reveal how commercial hunting set the terms for wildlife conservation and the first federal wildlife legislation at the turn of the twentieth century. Smalley and Reeves delve into the ground-level interactions among market hunters, game dealers, consumers, sportsmen, conservationists, and the wild birds they all wanted. Ultimately, they argue, wildfowl commercialization represented a revolutionary shift in wildlife use, turning what had been a mostly limited, local, and seasonal trade into an interstate industrial-capitalist enterprise. In the process, it provoked a critical public debate over the value of wildlife in a modern consumer culture. By the turn of the twentieth century, the authors reveal, it was clear that wild bird populations were declining precipitously all over North America. The looming possibility of a future without birds sparked intense debate nationwide and eventually culminated in the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Scholars, environmentalists, wildlife professionals, and anyone concerned about wildlife will find this new perspective on conservation history enlightening reading.
Author | : Daniel Lewis |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300183453 |
"Long forgotten, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of birds, Robert Ridgway, is one of America's most important scientists. This book centers itself around a biographical treatment of Ridgway, but even more important considers what it meant to be a professional and an amateur in biology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and shows how the field of ornithology was professionalized as evolutionary theory made its mark on the study of birds"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Annette Scheersoi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2018-11-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 303000175X |
This book presents the history of natural history dioramas in museums, their building and science learning aspects, as well as current developments and their place in the visitor experience. From the early 1900s, with the passage of time and changes in cultural norms in societies, this genre of exhibits evolved in response to the changes in entertainment, expectations and expressed needs of museum visitors. The challenge has always been to provide meaningful, relevant experiences to visitors, and this is still the aim today. Dioramas are also increasingly valued as learning tools. Contributions in this book specifically focus on their educational potential. In practice, dioramas are used by a wide range of educational practitioners to assist learners in developing and understanding specific concepts, such as climate change, evolution or or conservation issues. In this learning process, dioramas not only contribute to scientific understanding and cultural awareness, but also reconnect wide audiences to the natural world and thereby contribute to the well-being of societies. In the simultaneously published book: “Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes, Socio-cultural Aspects” the editors focus on socio-cultural issues and the potential of using dioramas to engage various audiences with – and in – contemporary debates and big issues, which society and the natural environment are facing.
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Total Pages | : 1200 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author | : Boston Public Library |
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Author | : Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Library |
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Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
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Total Pages | : 980 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : English literature |
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