Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain /
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain /
edited by Jon Agar and Jacob Ward.
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Technology, environment and modern Britain: historiography and intersections / Encroaching Irish bogland frontiers: science, policy and aspirations from the 1770s to the 1840s / Landscape with bulldozer: machines, modernity and environment in post-war Britain / Locality and contamination along the transnational asbestos commodity chain / A machine in the garden: the compressed air bath and the nineteenth-century health resort / The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum / About Britain: driving the landscape of Britain (at speed?) / Crops in a machine: industrialising barley breeding in twentieth-century Britain / Plants are technologies / Oceanscapes and spacescapes in North Atlantic communications / The Thames Barrier: climate change, chipping and the transition to a new envirotechnical regime / The woods for the state / The UK government's environmentalism: Britain, NATO and the origins of environmental diplomacy / Simulating the global environment: the British Government's response to The Limits to Growth / Jon Agar -- Esa Ruuskanen -- Ralph Harrington -- Jessica van Horssen -- Jennifer Wallis -- David Matless -- Tim Cole -- Matthew Holmes -- Dominic J. Berry -- Jacob Ward -- Matthew Kelly -- Mat Paskins -- Simone Turchetti -- Thomas Turnbull.
Open Access
"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"--Back cover.
9781911576570
Technology.
Technology.
Environmental policy.
Human ecology.
Environmental policy--Great Britain.
Human ecology--History.
Technology--History.--Great Britain
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Technology, environment and modern Britain: historiography and intersections / Encroaching Irish bogland frontiers: science, policy and aspirations from the 1770s to the 1840s / Landscape with bulldozer: machines, modernity and environment in post-war Britain / Locality and contamination along the transnational asbestos commodity chain / A machine in the garden: the compressed air bath and the nineteenth-century health resort / The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum / About Britain: driving the landscape of Britain (at speed?) / Crops in a machine: industrialising barley breeding in twentieth-century Britain / Plants are technologies / Oceanscapes and spacescapes in North Atlantic communications / The Thames Barrier: climate change, chipping and the transition to a new envirotechnical regime / The woods for the state / The UK government's environmentalism: Britain, NATO and the origins of environmental diplomacy / Simulating the global environment: the British Government's response to The Limits to Growth / Jon Agar -- Esa Ruuskanen -- Ralph Harrington -- Jessica van Horssen -- Jennifer Wallis -- David Matless -- Tim Cole -- Matthew Holmes -- Dominic J. Berry -- Jacob Ward -- Matthew Kelly -- Mat Paskins -- Simone Turchetti -- Thomas Turnbull.
Open Access
"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"--Back cover.
9781911576570
Technology.
Technology.
Environmental policy.
Human ecology.
Environmental policy--Great Britain.
Human ecology--History.
Technology--History.--Great Britain
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.