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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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Otros Autores: Ward, Jacob (Science and technology historian) (Editor), Agar, Jon (Editor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Materias:
Technology.
Environmental policy.
Human ecology.
Environmental policy > Great Britain.
Human ecology > History.
Technology > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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