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Histories of technology, the environment, and modern Britain /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Technology, environment and modern Britain: historiography and intersections; History of technology and environmental history in
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- Britain; Eight types of combination; (1) Environment as an input into a technological system; (2) Environment as something natural made into, or a component within, a technological system; (3) Environment as something changed, usually damaged, by outputs of technological process; (4) Environment as something alongside an artificial world
- (5) Environment as something untouched by artifice(6) Environment as something represented through technology; (7) Environmental knowledge as something organised by being registered with technology; (8) Environment and technologies as interconnected cultural imaginaries; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Encroaching Irish bogland frontiers: science, policy and aspirations from the 1770s to the 1840s; Introduction; Bogland frontiers framed and labelled; Bogland frontiers surveyed and assessed; Bogland frontiers revisited and reopened; Summary; Notes
- 3 Landscape with bulldozer: machines, modernity and environment in post-war BritainA natural history of the bulldozer; Bombsites and bulldozers: rebuilding Britain; The dark side of the bulldozer; On the tracks of modernity; Notes; 4 Locality and contamination along the transnational asbestos commodity chain; Canada's asbestos culture; Manchester's asbestos culture; Industrial vs domestic exposure; From the factory to the home: changing sites of exposure and contamination; Conclusion; Notes; 5 A machine in the garden: the compressed air bath and the nineteenth-century health resort
- Nineteenth-century landscapes of technologyThe compressed air bath and its uses; Encounters physical and spiritual; Decorating the compressed air bath; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; 6 The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum; Hand sowing to helicopter; Establishing a new Agriculture Gallery; Time for modern farming; History for the modern; Vividly new; 1951-2017; Acknowledgements; Notes; 7 About Britain: driving the landscape of Britain (at speed?); Speed, scale and topography: driving About Britain
- The rubber hits the road: contesting the speed, scale and topography of the QuantocksNotes; 8 Crops in a machine: industrialising barley breeding in twentieth-century Britain; Industrial hybridisation: Proctor barley; Changing attitudes to hybrid plants; Engineering the industrial hybrid; Crosstalk with the brewing industry; Hybrid crops and population growth; Ecological consequences; Barley goes nuclear: Golden Promise; Power over nature; Gamma ray breeding; Competition from hybrids; Measuring fallout on the farm; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Plants are technologies; Introduction; Potato governance