DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton : geology and power in early New York
2014
923.273 C641sp 2014 MB
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Title
DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton : geology and power in early New York
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Description
xii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
923.273 C641sp 2014 MB
System Control No.
(OCoLC)852957172
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index.
Contents: Preamble -- Introduction: Meeting place for waters and students of Earth history -- Part I. Exploring New York State -- Invitations to study the Earth's past -- Natural sciences and civic virtues -- The landlord and the ex-convict -- Part II. Engineering for a New World's geology -- Clinton's ditch -- Eaton's agricultural and geological surveys -- Empire State exports -- Part III. Entertaining deep time and the sublime -- Literary naturalists -- Kindred spirits -- Rocks, reverence, and religion -- Conclusion: Echoes of New York's embrace of the geological imperative.
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Contents: Preamble -- Introduction: Meeting place for waters and students of Earth history -- Part I. Exploring New York State -- Invitations to study the Earth's past -- Natural sciences and civic virtues -- The landlord and the ex-convict -- Part II. Engineering for a New World's geology -- Clinton's ditch -- Eaton's agricultural and geological surveys -- Empire State exports -- Part III. Entertaining deep time and the sublime -- Literary naturalists -- Kindred spirits -- Rocks, reverence, and religion -- Conclusion: Echoes of New York's embrace of the geological imperative.
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