Knowing global environments new historical perspectives on the field sciences /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Vetter, Jeremy, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • From the oceans to the mountains : spatial science in an age of empire / Michael S. Reidy
  • Emigrants and pioneers : Moritz Wagner's "law of migration" in context / Lynn K. Nyhart
  • Negotiating the agricultural frontier in nineteenth-century southern Ohio archaeology / J. Conor Burns
  • Managing monocultures : coffee, the coffee rust, and the science of working landscapes / Stuart McCook
  • Rocky Mountain high science : teaching, research, and nature at field stations / Jeremy Vetter
  • On the trail of the ivory-bill : field science, local knowledge, and the struggle to save endangered species / Mark V. Barrow Jr.
  • Playing by and on and under the sea : the importance of play for knowing the ocean / Helen M. Rozwadowski
  • Planetary-scale field work : Harry Wexler on the possibilities of ozone depletion and climate control / James Rodger Fleming
  • History of field science : trends and prospects / Robert E. Kohler.