Field Life: Science in the American West During the Railroad Era

by Jeremy Vetter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822944537
• ISBN13: 9780822944539
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"