Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain /

"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...

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Other Authors: Ward, Jacob (Science and technology historian) (Editor), Agar, Jon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2018.
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