Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826355099 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sherow is a professor of history at Kansas State University. James E. A specialist in the environmental history of the American West, he is the author of TheGrasslandsoftheUnitedStates:AnEnvironmentalHistory and WateringtheValley:DevelopmentalongtheHighPlainsArkansasR
This book presents recent photographs by John R. As the Union Pacific claimed, the railroad created an American empire in the region, and Charlton’s rephotography captures the transformation of the grasslands, harnessed by the powerful social and economic forces of the railroad.. Sherow uses the paired images to show how Indian and Anglo-American land-use practices affected the landscape. Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific Railroad), across Kansas beginning in 1867. Like most rephotography projects, this one provides fascinating information about the changes in the landscape over the last century and a half.The book presents ninety pairs of Gardner’s and Charlton’s photographs. Sherow’s discussion. In all of Charlton’s photos he duplicates the exact location and time of day of the Gardner originals. Charlton o
Five Stars Mike This is great book. Thank You!!!. D. Benvenuto said Photos are great. Although they are not always at exactly the. Photos are great. Although they are not always at exactly the same spot.Title is misleading- it's not really across the Heartland, it's just across Kansas.The verbiage however is that of a politically correct graduate student hip to the latest campus ideological fashions lecturing his family over Thanksgiving Dinner on the way the world works. When it's not enlightening it's dated, and when it's not dated it's annoying.
“The value of this book is that it exposes us to a different interpretation of the frontier, one that forces us to recognize the realities of early but uncompromising corporate power.”Kansas History“A fascinating re-look at Kansas and the grasslands, viewed not only through the camera lens but also through the less tangible, yet still revealing, historical lenses of technology, conquest, environmental change, and time.”Julie Courtwright, author of PrairieFire:AGreatPlainsHistory“Sherow and Charlton have taken on a very ambitious project of great historical importance: retracing the photographs of America’s heartland made by the nineteenth-century railroad photographer Alexander Gardner. Thi