Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences

Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment

by Jeremy Vetter (Editor), Mark V. Barrow Jr. (Contributor), J. Conor Burns (Contributor)

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 outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales.

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 24, 2010