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
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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