Technology and the environment in history / Sara B. Pritchard, Carl A. Zimring.
By: Pritchard, Sara B [author.].
Contributor(s): Zimring, Carl A [author.].
Series: Historical perspectives on technology, society, and culture.Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2020Description: 253 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421438993.Subject(s): Industries -- Environmental aspects -- History | Environmental technology -- History | Human ecology | Pollution -- Health aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | TD194 .P75 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000017199 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Food and food systems -- Industrialization -- Discards -- Disasters -- Body -- Sensescapes.
"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"--