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Technology, Environment and Modern Britain: Historiography and Intersections (2018)

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This collection explores the interconnected histories of technology and the environment in the context of modern Britain, broadly speaking from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth. It is an extraordinarily rich subject, and one of immense potential. The histories of technology and the environment should be considered together for two compelling reasons. First, the artificial and the natural are not separate; technologies are made from materials that have been extracted and modified from environments, while nature has, to varying extents, been engineered. Technologies are typically assemblages, most often technological systems, with components that can be material or social

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Authors & Contributors
Cataldi, Raffaele
Gunn, Simon
Burgassi, Pier Domenico
Simone Capozzi
Ward, Jacob
Benesch, Klaus
Concepts
Environment
Technology and environment, relationship
Technology and society
Historiography
Lighting, electric
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
21st century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Italy
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
St. Louis (Missouri, U.S.)
Manchuria
Institutions
Royal Society of Arts
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