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Field Life : Science in the American West during the Railroad Era /

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 technol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vetter, Jeremy, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Making the field
  • 2. Lay networks
  • 3. Surveys
  • 4. Quarries
  • 5. Stations
  • Epilogue.