River, Railway and Ravine by Douglas Harper
From their mid-nineteenth-century fencing business the Harpers of Aberdeen developed a unique system of suspension that allowed their light foot suspension bridges to be relatively rigid. The Harpers innovative work overcame the disadvantages of this type of bridge and was of considerable benefit to those who relied upon them.Douglas Harper is Professor of Sociology at Duquesne University. He has published five books with the University of Chicago Press, which include innovative uses of photography as well as other qualitative methods. Harper has also edited or co-edited four books on visual sociology. He is the founding editor of Visual Studies, the official journal of the International Visual Sociology Association. He has published more than fifty chapters, articles and photo essays, and has been invited by more than 100 universities and academic societies in the US and abroad to lecture on qualitative methods and visual sociology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750962131 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750962135 |
| Title | River, Railway and Ravine |
| Author | Douglas Harper |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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