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...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 323 - 351 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Summer2018
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