Atlantropa – Endless Energy from the Mediterranean Sea
Arcadia, 2012, no. 9
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technological
technology
Invention of the Internal Combustion Engine
Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel invent the internal combustion engine.
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Regions:
A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.
Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
Disaster Ahead: How Danube Floods Created Telegraph Networks
Arcadia, 2012, no. 7
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?
Clapperton Mavhunga on "Incoming Technology and African Innovation"
Clapperton Mavhunga, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on incoming technology and African innovation.
Paul Josephson on "An Environmental History of the Soviet Arctic"
Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.