Agar, Jon E. (Editor)
Ward, Jacob (Editor)
UCL Press
Physical Details: 298 pages
Language: English
Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation - and self-organisation - that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.
...MoreChapter Ralph Harrington (2018) Landscape with Bulldozer: Machines, Modernity and Environment in Post-war Britain. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 41-61).
Chapter Jessica van Horssen (2018) Locality and Contamination along the Transnational Asbestos Commodity Chain. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 62-75).
Chapter Dominic J. Berry (2018) Plants are Technologies. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 161-185).
Chapter Jacob Ward (2018) Oceanscapes and Spacescapes in North Atlantic Communications. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 186-205).
Chapter Matthew Holmes (2018) Crops in a Machine: Industrialising Barley Breeding in Twentieth-century Britain. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 142-160).
Chapter Jon Agar (2018) Technology, Environment and Modern Britain: Historiography and Intersections. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 1-21).
Chapter Mat Paskins (2018) The Woods for the State. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 230-251).
Chapter Tim Cole (2018) About Britain: Driving the Landscape of Britain (at speed?). In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 123-141).
Chapter David Matless (2018) The Agriculture Gallery: Displaying Modern Farming in the Science Museum. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 101-122).
Chapter Simone Turchetti (2018) The UK Government’s Environmentalism: Britain, NATO and the Origins of Environmental Diplomacy. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 252-270).
Chapter Jennifer Wallis (2018) A Machine in the Garden: The Compressed Air Bath and the Nineteenth-century Health Resort. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 76-100).
Chapter Thomas Turnbull (2018) Simulating the Global Environment: The British Government’s Response to The Limits to Growth. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 271-299).
Chapter Esa Ruuskanen (2018) Encroaching Irish Bogland Frontiers: Science, Policy and Aspirations from the 1770s to the 1840s. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 22-40).
Chapter Matthew Kelly (2018) The Thames Barrier: Climate Change, Shipping and the Transition to a New Envirotechnical Regime. In: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (pp. 206-229).
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