Thoreau the land surveyor / Patrick Chura.

By:

Chura, Patrick, 1964-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813043500
0813043506
9780813038278
0813038278

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thoreau the land surveyor.DDC classification:

818/.309 22

LOC classification:

PS3053 .C47 2010eb

Other classification:

18.06
38.73

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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."

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index.

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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 to measurable terms and acted as an agent for bringing it under proprietary control.

English.

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