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Landscapes and Archives: Notes on a Method

John Dean Davis
Landscape Journal, January 2021, 39 (1) 71-85; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.39.1.71
John Dean Davis
Environmental and engineering historian and assistant professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches landscape history. He is currently working on a book about engineering and landscape in the Reconstruction era following the US Civil War.
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