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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."
"An insightful study of how Thoreau''s profession as a surveyor impacts his environmental sensibility and informs his literary works; further, Chura shows that the manuscript surveys and corresponding field notes are themselves worthy of literary analysis. "
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 reduce…
In Surveying the Early Republic, Robert D. Bush contextualizes the firsthand account of Andrew Ellicott, the United States Boundary Commissioner appointed by President George Washington in 1796. Ellicott and his Spanish counterparts established the boundary line between the Unit…
Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of re…
Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of re…
Scottish experiences -- Building an East Indian career -- On the route: from military imperatives to the tasks of government -- Mackenzie's survey -- Mapping history, producing territory -- Knowledge for the future -- The past in the present -- The surveyor general -- Epilogue
For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who liv…