Taking the Field - 9781496215215

Taking the FieldSoldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers\nAuthor(s): Amy Kohout\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496215215, 978-1496215215\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2024 Robert M. Utley Prize\n Winner of the 2024 Hal K. Rothman Prize\n\n Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.\n\n In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, [url] soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct natures ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make progress. Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these deba.