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Knowing global environments : new historical perspectives on the field sciences /
Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology. Collectively their essays explore the his...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. From the Oceans to the Mountains: Spatial Science in an Age of Empire; Two. Emigrants and Pioneers: Moritz Wagner's "Law of Migration" in Context; Three. Negotiating the Agricultural Frontier in Nineteenth-Century Southern Ohio Archaeology; Four. Managing Monocultures: Coffee, the Coffee Rust, and the Science of Working Landscapes; Five. Rocky Mountain High Science: Teaching, Research, and Nature at Field Stations; Six. On the Trail of the Ivory-Bill: Field Science, Local Knowledge, and the Struggle to Save Endangered Species.
- Seven. Playing By--and On and Under--the Sea: The Importance of Play for Knowing the OceanEight. Planetary-Scale Fieldwork: Harry Wexler on the Possibilities of Ozone Depletion and Climate Control; Nine. History of Field Science: Trends and Prospects; Notes on Contributors; Index.