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100 1 Vetter, Jeremy,|d1975-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n2010001046
245 10 Field Life :|bScience in the American West during the
Railroad Era.
264 1 Pittsburgh :|bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,|c2016.
300 1 online resource (513 pages).
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490 1 INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
505 0 Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Making the Field; 2. Lay
Networks; 3. Surveys; 4. Quarries; 5. Stations; Epilogue;
Notes; Bibliography; Index.
520 Field Life examines the practice of science in the field
in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American
West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad
was the dominant form of long-distance transportation.
Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the
history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of
scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor
that produced knowledge with the natural world in which
those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of
field practice, which were shared by different field
science disciplines, proliferated during this period--
surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations--and this
book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them.
Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of
practice, as well as the making of the field as a place
for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of
specific examples of field science on the ground with
wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of
a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and
physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and
the human sciences. By situating science in its regional
environmental context, Field Life analyzes the
intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science
and the experiential knowledge of people living in the
field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies
range widely: geological surveys and weather observing
networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and
archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment
stations and mountain biological field stations.
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aVetter, Jeremy.|tField Life : Science in
the American West during the Railroad Era.|dPittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2016|z9780822944539
830 0 INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment.
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