George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) is best remembered for his work Man and Nature (1864), which was later revised as The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1874). Published one hundred years before the ...
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George Perkins Marsh (15 March 1801-23 July 1882), philologist and miscellaneous writer, was born in Woodstock, Vermont. His cousin was James Marsh, the philosopher-president of the University of Verm...
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The writings of George Perkins Marsh encompass one of the broadest ranges of those of any scholar and public figure in nineteenth-century America. A lawyer, legislator, philologist, linguist, diplomat...
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George Perkins Marsh is known today primarily as the author of Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (1864), one of the most original and farsighted books of the nineteent...
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George Perkins Marsh
George Perkins Marsh