Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
Wasser correlates the control of water supply with power in a comparative collection of articles on water in ancient, early modern, and modern states.
Extract from Nina Munteanu’s Water is…—a book on the meaning of water.
Excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center fellow Helen Rozwadowski’s book Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans.
Excerpt from Border Flows, an anthology edited by Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane.
Excerpts from the book Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China by former RCC fellow Yan Gao.
Excerpt from RCC alumnus Fabian Zimmer’s book Hydroelektrische Projektionen.
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield?