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The Estrangement of the American Landscape.

American attitudes towards the land were shaped by the great rectangular survey that carved the western United States into a uniform rectilinear grid, as precise as mathematical graphing paper. Initiated by Thomas Jefferson in 1784, the survey recast North America into a land estranged from its peop...

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Published in:Social Research Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 323 - 351
Main Author: Alexander, Amir
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Summer2018
Subjects:
Social alienation
Land use
Exploitation of humans
Marshes
Extremists
Ranchers
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (Or.)
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