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Technology and the environment in history / Sara B. Pritchard, Carl A. Zimring.

Van Pelt Library TD194 .P75 2020
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pritchard, Sara B., 1972- author.
Zimring, Carl A., 1969- author.
Series:
Technology in motion
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pollution--Health aspects.
Pollution.
Green technology.
History.
Industries--Environmental aspects.
Industries--Environmental aspects--History.
Industries.
Green technology--History.
Human ecology.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
vii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Summary:
"Nature and technology have become critical issues, both empirically and theoretically, within the history of technology and related fields. This book comes at an important moment in the specialty's history: scholarly dialogue has been ongoing for more than a generation, with work under an explicit "envirotech" framework now entering its second decade. The goal of this book is to synthesize some of the critical topics and contributions in envirotech scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Food and Food Systems
ch. 2 Industrialization
ch. 3 Discards
ch. 4 Disasters
ch. 5 Body
ch. 6 Sensescapes.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781421438993
1421438992
OCLC:
1142003729
Publisher Number:
99985695817

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