Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain
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Author(s): AGAR, Ward
Ward, Jacob
ISBN No.: 9781911576587
Pages: 350
Year: 201808
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 48.30
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a broad, multifaceted look at how technology and the environment have become intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last three hundred years. For the first time, the book brings together two perspectives with ample insights into the history of Britain since the Industrial Revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Both technologies and our living and nonliving environment comprise material forms of organization--or self-organization--and both have changed over time, sometimes in intersecting ways. Among the technologies discussed in the collection are bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays, and biotechnologies. Environments discussed include both places of natural beauty and pollution, bogs, cities, farms, land, and sea. The book explores this diversity and offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.


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