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