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Description for Field Life
Hardback. Series: Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene. Num Pages: 464 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; KCN; RNT; TRF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 816.
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded.
Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book ... Read more
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded.
Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822944539
SKU
V9780822944539
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Ref
99-43
About Jeremy Vetter
Jeremy Vetter is associate professor of history at the University of Arizona.
Reviews for Field Life
In Field Life, Jeremy Vetter covers that significant period in the second half of the nineteenth century which saw both the rise of the railroad and the rise of modern American science. Surprisingly, no one has looked at the railroad and the West as an enviro-technical system, and it is a welcomed addition to such an analytical approach. Vetter also ... Read more