Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain - Softcover

Ward, Jacob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911576585 ISBN 13: 9781911576587

Publisher: UCL Press, 2018

Synopsis

Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a broad, multifaceted look at how technology and the environment have become intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last three hundred years. For the first time, the book brings together two perspectives with ample insights into the history of Britain since the Industrial Revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Both technologies and our living and nonliving environment comprise material forms of organization—or self-organization—and both have changed over time, sometimes in intersecting ways. Among the technologies discussed in the collection are bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays, and biotechnologies. Environments discussed include both places of natural beauty and pollution, bogs, cities, farms, land, and sea. The book explores this diversity and offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.
 

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About the Author

Jon Agar is professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. He is the author of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Jacob Ward is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL and at the Science Museum, London.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1911576585
• ISBN 13: 9781911576587
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Agar Jon