Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene

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Transplanting Modernity?

Transplanting Modernity?

New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment

Calls for an Honest Reckoning of the Successes, Failures, and Unanticipated Results of International Developments

The Age of Mammals

The Age of Mammals

International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century

Shows the Cultural Resonance of Mammal Paleontology from an International Perspective

The Globalization of Wheat

The Globalization of Wheat

A Critical History of the Green Revolution

Debunks Myths of the Green Revolution with a Long-Awaited Critique of Wide Adaptation

The Atomic Archipelago

The Atomic Archipelago

US Nuclear Submarines and Technopolitics of Risk in Cold War Italy

The First Systematic Study of Nuclear Expertise in Italy

A New Ecological Order

A New Ecological Order

Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe

Explores the Role of State Planners, Bureaucrats, and Experts as Agents of Change in the Natural World of Eastern Europe

Beyond the Lab and the Field

Beyond the Lab and the Field

Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century

A Much-Needed Study ofInfrastructures and How Technologies of Modernity Enriched Scientific Knowledge

Far Beyond the Moon

Far Beyond the Moon

A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age

An Engaging History of the Less Glamorous but Equally Essential Aspects of Space Travel: Sanitation, Food Supply, and Waste Disposal

Nature’s Diplomats

Nature’s Diplomats

Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960

A History of Early International Preservationist Groups and the Natures They Sought to Preserve

Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination

Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination

Placing Atmospheric Knowledges
As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and ...
Itineraries of Expertise

Itineraries of Expertise

Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War

Sixteen contributors dig deeper and uncover the national and transnational negotiation of expertise, including the role of Latin American experts in these processes.

Gone to Ground

Gone to Ground

A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam

An examination of the profound and rapid growth of Africa’s largest city during a pivotal era of national and global uncertainty.

Inevitably Toxic

Inevitably Toxic

Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise

The essays in this collection ask us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life using the example of exposure of people in four countries to nuclear radiation, industrial waste, pesticides and future biological warfare.

Living with Lead

Living with Lead

An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011

The Coeur d’Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Its legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. Living with Lead untangles the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it.

Field Life

Field Life

Science in the American West during the Railroad Era

This book examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded.

When They Hid the Fire

When They Hid the Fire

A History of Electricity and Invisible Energy in America

Daniel French examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology between the mid-19th and early decades of the 20th centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society, leading Americans to culturally construct electricity as unlimited and environmentally inconsequential—a newfound “basic right” of life in the United States.

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