The illusory boundary : environment and technology in history /
"The view of nature and technology inhabiting totally different, even opposite, spheres persists across time and cultures. Most people would consider an English countryside or a Louisiana bayou to be "natural," though each is to an extent the product of technology. Pollution, widely t...
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2010
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding the place of humans in nature / James C. Williams
- Our bodies and our histories of technology and the environment / Joy Parr
- Can nature improve technology? / Peter Coates
- The nature of industrialization / Sara B. Pritchard and Thomas Zeller
- Is there a Chinese view of technology and nature? / Peter C. Perdue
- Out west in places and spaces / William D. Rowley
- The city as an artifact of technology and the environment / Joel A. Tarr
- Waste and pollution : changing views and environmental consequences / Craig E. Colten
- Are tomatoes natural? / Ann Vileisis
- Can organisms be technology? / Edmund Russell
- Where does nature end and culture begin? Converging themes in the history of technology and environmental history / Hugh S. Gorman and Betsy Mendelsohn.
