Thoreau the land surveyor:
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1. Verfasser: Chura, Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville, FL University Press of Florida ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index
The surveyor and the state -- Material to mythology -- Walden, Cape Cod, and the duty of the coast survey -- The skillful engineer -- Serving Admetus -- The science of the field notes -- The Concord surveyor and the Kansas surveyor -- "I am a surveyor."
Placing Thoreau's surveying in historical context, the author explains the cultural and ideological implications of surveying work in the mid-19th century. He the ways that Thoreau's environmentalist disposition and philosophical convictions asserted themselves even as he reduced the land to measurable terms and acted as an agent for bringing it under proprietary control
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 212 pages)
ISBN:0813034930
0813038278
0813041473
0813043506
9780813034935
9780813038278
9780813041476
9780813043500

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