Thoreau the land surveyor / Patrick Chura.
2010
PS3053 .C47 2010eb
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Title
Thoreau the land surveyor / Patrick Chura.
Author
ISBN
9780813043500 (electronic bk.)
0813043506 (electronic bk.)
9780813038278 (ebook)
0813038278 (ebook)
9780813034935
0813034930
0813041473
9780813041476
0813043506 (electronic bk.)
9780813038278 (ebook)
0813038278 (ebook)
9780813034935
0813034930
0813041473
9780813041476
Imprint
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2010.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 212 pages) : illustrations, map
Call Number
PS3053 .C47 2010eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)811563584
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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."
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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Print version: Chura, Patrick, 1964- Thoreau the land surveyor. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2010
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