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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UCL Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- The 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
- The Thames Barrier: climate change, chipping and the transition to a new envirotechnical regime / Matthew Kelly
- The woods for the state / Mat Paskins
- The 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.