Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences

by Jeremy Vetter

Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology. Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813548756
• ISBN13: 9780813548753
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"