Technology and the Environment in History

Informationen zum Autor Sara B. Pritchard is an associate professor of science and technology studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône and the coeditor of New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies . Carl A. Zimring is a professor of social science and cultural studies at Pratt Institute. He is the author of Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States and Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective . Klappentext Aimed at students and scholars new to environmental history, the history of technology, and their nexus, this impressive synthesis looks outward and forward--identifying promising areas in more formative stages of intellectual development and current synergies with related areas that have emerged in the past few years, including environmental anthropology, discard studies, and posthumanism. Zusammenfassung Aimed at students and scholars new to environmental history, the history of technology, and their nexus, this impressive synthesis looks outward and forward-identifying promising areas in more formative stages of intellectual development and current synergies with related areas that have emerged in the past few years, including environmental anthropology, discard studies, and posthumanism.

Product details

• Authors: Sara B. Pritchard, Sara B. Zimring Pritchard, Carl A. Zimring, Carl A. (Associate Professor Zimring
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781421438993
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3899-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Technology in Motion; Historical Perspectives on Tec
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of Science, environmental science, engineering & technology, History of engineering & technology, The Earth: Natural History General