To Stilgoe's Common Landscape I would also recommend Leo Marx's The Machine 
in the Garden.   I am actually using both of these sources to describe the 
industrial landscape associated with railroad maintenance and the section system 
during the 19th and early 20th centuries for my dissertation.   

Regards,

Stathi Pappas



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Efstathios I. Pappas, MS
Doctoral Student
Department of Anthropology/096
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
(775) 323-5730