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Title The illusory boundary : environment and technology in history / edited by Martin Reuss and Stephen H. Cutcliffe.
Publication Info Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, c2010.


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Descript ix, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780813929897 (pbk.)
9780813929880 (cloth)
0813929881 (cloth)
081392989X (pbk.)
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Subject Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental protection.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology -- Social aspects.
Alt author Reuss, Martin.
Cutcliffe, Stephen H.
Descript ix, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780813929897 (pbk.)
9780813929880 (cloth)
0813929881 (cloth)
081392989X (pbk.)
Subject Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental protection.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology -- Social aspects.
Alt author Reuss, Martin.
Cutcliffe, Stephen H.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 3rd Floor  T 14.5 I2  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental protection.
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology -- Social aspects.
Descript ix, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Alt author Reuss, Martin.
Cutcliffe, Stephen H.
ISBN 9780813929897 (pbk.)
9780813929880 (cloth)
0813929881 (cloth)
081392989X (pbk.)

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