Industrialized Nature Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World.

In Industrialized Nature, the accomplished historian Paul R. Josephson shows us how science, engineering, policy, finance, and hubris have come together, often with unforeseen consequences, to perpetuate what he calls "brute force technologies"--Large-scale systems created to exploit water...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Josephson, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : Island Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Industrialization > Environmental aspects.
Technological innovations > History > 20th century.
Industrialisation > Aspect de l'environnement.
Innovations > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Industrialization > Environmental aspects
Technological innovations
UmU kursbok
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • |t Prologue: Industrialized Nature
  • |t Pyramids of Concrete: Rivers, Dams, and the Ideological Roots of Brute Force Technology
  • |t The Cellulose Factory
  • |t Corridors of Modernization
  • |t Cold-Blooded Machines
  • |t Epilogue: Nature Irrevocably Transformed?

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