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Knowing global environments

Knowing global environments new historical perspectives on the field sciences / [electronic resource] : edited by Jeremy Vetter. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (x, 263 p. :) ill., maps ; - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment . - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780813550275 0813550270




Science--Fieldwork--History.


Electronic books.

Q175 / .K557 2011

507.2/3