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?
This article studies the aetiology underlying water management by exploring the social hermeneutics that determined its construction. It details how science, technology and political relations construct each other mutually, both producing and harnessing the scientific discourse on the environment.
This 1880 map centered on Chicago displays the early CB&Q railroad route.
Through ethnographic fieldwork in southern Lebanon, Vasiliki Touhouliotis examines the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war’s environmental impact.
This article discusses controversy over drainage tunnels in a Welsh lead mining region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.
What is Particular about Munich’s Environment?
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.