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SUMMARY:'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900 - Peter J. Bow
 ler (Queen's University Belfast)
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CONTACT:Jules Skotnes-Brown
DESCRIPTION:The topic of this paper derives from earlier studies of popula
 r science literature around 1900 and focuses on natural history literature
  devoted to wildlife in colonies of the British Empire\, especially India.
  The 'home and colonial' theme refers to the emergence of a British popula
 tion in the colony large enough to sustain serious interest in the local w
 ildlife – wildlife that was an everyday experience for them but which wo
 uld seem exotic and exciting to readers back in Britain. The paper looks a
 t the relationship between material published in Britain and the growing b
 ody of works aimed at expatriate readers and increasingly published in Ind
 ia. It also looks at the emergence of societies such as the Bombay Natural
  History Society\, and the links between them and the publication of descr
 iptions of big game hunting in India.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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