| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
new historicalperspectives on the fieldsciences |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
VetterJeremy, 1975- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
New Brunswick, N.J. |
| Published: |
Rutgers University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 263 p.)ill., maps. : |
| Series: |
Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment |
| Subject: |
Science - Fieldwork - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813550275/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813550275electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0813550270electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813548753hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0813548756hbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 endangeredspecies / 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 / RobertE. Kohler |