Thoreau the Land Surveyor /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chura, Patrick, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Knowledge > Surveying.
Milieufilosofie.
Landmeetkunde.
Surveyors
Surveying
Authors, American
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Geometres > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivains americains > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Surveying > United States > History > 19th century.
Surveyors > United States > Biography.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Verenigde Staten.
United States
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780813043500

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