McPherson Robert S., Neel Susan R. Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 9780806153858

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Автор: McPherson Robert S., Neel Susan R.
Название: Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
ISBN: 9780806153858
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Всеобщая и мировая история

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Социальная история и история культуры

Коренные народы

Географическое открытие и исследование

История инженерного дела и технологий производства

Обследование участков для строительства

Краеведение

ISBN-10: 0806153857
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 04.08.2016
Серия: American exploration and travel series
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 30 black & white illustrations, 5 maps
Размер: 229 x 152 x 25
Подзаголовок: Narrating the hayden survey of 1875
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summers work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the teams experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion. Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Haydens team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery - Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland. Hayden saw his expedition as a scientific endeavor focused on geology, geographic description, cartographic accuracy, and even ethnography, but the search for economic potential was a significant underlying motive. As this book shows, these pragmatic scientists were on the lookout for gold beneath every rock, grazing lands in every valley, and economic opportunity around each bend in the trail. The Hayden Survey ultimately shaped the American imagination in contradictory ways, solidifying the idea of progress - and government funding of its pursuit - while also revealing, via Jacksons photographs, a landscape with a beauty hitherto unknown and unimagined.
Дополнительное описание: History of the Americas|General and world history

Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875, McPherson Robert S., Neel Susan R.