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Squirrel Nation - Peter Coates

Squirrel Nation

Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2023
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-770-4 (ISBN)
CHF 29,65 inkl. MwSt
A history of Britain's two species of squirrel over the past 200 years, the beloved red and the invading grey. The book also explores timely issues of belonging, nationalism, citizenship and the defence of borders within Britain today.
Squirrel Nation is a history of Britain's two species of squirrel over the past two hundred years. The red squirrel, although rare, is among the most cherished of native species. Grey squirrels, by contrast, are one of the most frequently seen wild creatures in our gardens, parks, towns and countryside, and many Britons consider it to be a foreign interloper, introduced from North America in the late nineteenth century. By examining this animal's colonization of Britain, Peter Coates also explores timely issues of belonging, nationalism, citizenship and the defence of borders within Britain today. Ultimately, though people are swift to draw distinctions between British squirrels and squirrels in Britain, Squirrel Nation shows that Britain's two squirrel species have much more in common than at first appears.

Peter Coates is Emeritus Professor of American and Environmental History at the University of Bristol. His previous books include Salmon (2006) and A Story of Six Rivers (2013), both published by Reaktion Books.

PREFACE
1 A TALE OF TWO SQUIRRELS
2 RED BEFORE GREY
3 GREY AND RED
4 AMERICAN HUSTLE, c. 1919-39
5 WAGING WAR ON THE 'GREY PERIL', c. 1939-73
6 WANTED: RED AND ALIVE
7 LEARNING TO LIVE WITH (AND TO LOVE) THE GREY

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturführer
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78914-770-0 / 1789147700
ISBN-13 978-1-78914-770-4 / 9781789147704
Zustand Neuware
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