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Geopolitics and the Avian Imperial Archive: The Zoogeography of Region-Making in the Nineteenth-Century British Mediterranean

Kirsten Greer Department of History, University of Warwick
Pages 1317-1331 | Received 01 Dec 2011, Accepted 01 Feb 2013, Published online: 13 May 2013

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