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1 online resource (xii, 342 pages) : ilustrations |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Technology, environment and modern Britain: historiography and intersections / Jon Agar -- Encroaching Irish bogland frontiers: science, policy and aspirations from the 1770s to the 1840s / Esa Ruuskanen -- Landscape with bulldozer: machines, modernity and environment in post-war Britain / Ralph Harrington -- Locality and contamination along the transnational asbestos commodity chain / Jessica van Horssen -- A machine in the garden: the compressed air bath and the nineteenth-century health resort / Jennifer Wallis -- Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum / David Matless -- About Britain: driving the landscape of Britain (at speed?) / Tim Cole -- Crops in a machine: industrialising barley breeding in twentieth-century Britain / Matthew Holmes -- Plants are technologies / Dominic J. Berry -- Oceanscapes and spacescapes in North Atlantic communications / Jacob Ward -- Thames Barrier: climate change, chipping and the transition to a new envirotechnical regime / Matthew Kelly -- Woods for the state / Mat Paskins -- UK government's environmentalism: Britain, NATO and the origins of environmental diplomacy / Simone Turchetti -- Simulating the global environment: the British Government's response to The Limits to Growth / Thomas Turnbull. |
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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
"Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation - and self-organisation - that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections"--Back cover. |
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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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Technology. |
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Technology. |
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Environmental policy. |
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Human ecology. |
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Environmental policy -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
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Human ecology -- History.
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History. |
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Technology -- Great Britain -- History.
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History.
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Electronic books. .
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Ward, Jacob (Science and technology historian), editor.
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Agar, Jon, editor.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781911576570 |
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1911576593 |
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9781911576594 |
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1911576585 |
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9781911576587 |
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