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The illusory boundary : environment and technology in history / edited by Martin Reuss and Stephen H. Cutcliffe.
LIBRA T14.5 .I44 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Technology--Environmental aspects.
- Environmental protection.
- Technology and civilization.
- Human ecology--Social aspects.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Understanding the place of humans in nature / James C. Williams
- Our bodies and our histories of technology and the environment / Joy Parr
- Can nature improve technology? / Peter Coates
- The nature of industrialization / Sara B. Pritchard and Thomas Zeller
- Is there a Chinese view of technology and nature? / Peter C. Perdue
- Out west in places and spaces / William D. Rowley
- The city as an artifact of technology and the environment / Joel A. Tarr
- Waste and pollution : changing views and environmental consequences / Craig E. Colten
- Are tomatoes natural? / Ann Vileisis
- Can organisms be technology? / Edmund Russell
- Where does nature end and culture begin? Converging themes in the history of technology and environmental history / Hugh S. Gorman and Betsy Mendelsohn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780813929880
- 0813929881
- 9780813929897
- 081392989X
- 9780813930534
- 0813930537
- OCLC:
- 502874360
- Publisher Number:
- 99939891588
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