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Histories of Technology the Environment and Modern Britain

Jon Agar, Jacob Ward

Publisher: UCL Press

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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.
Available since: 04/09/2018.

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