Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (eBook)

lt;p>Jon Agar is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. He has written on the history of radio-astronomy, computing, and mobile phones, and his most recent book, Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, surveys the history of science across the twentieth century.

Jacob Ward is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL, and the Science Museum, London. His PhD thesis addresses the history of the so-called ‘information revolution’ in the British telephone network in the latter half of the twentieth century.

1 Technology, environment and modern
Britain: historiography and intersections
Jon Agar

2 Encroaching Irish bogland frontiers: science, policy and
aspirations from the 1770s to the 1840s
Esa Ruuskanen

3 Landscape with bulldozer: machines, modernity and
environment in post-war Britain
Ralph Harrington

4 Locality and contamination along the transnational
asbestos commodity chain
Jessica van Horssen

5 A machine in the garden: the compressed air bath and the
nineteenth-century health resort
Jennifer Wallis

6 The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the
Science Museum
David Matless

7 About Britain: driving the landscape of Britain (at speed?)
Tim Cole

8 Crops in a machine: industrialising barley breeding in
twentieth-century Britain
Matthew Holmes

9 Plants are technologies
Dominic J. Berry
10 Oceanscapes and spacescapes in North Atlantic
communications
Jacob Ward

11 The Thames Barrier: climate change, shipping and the
transition to a new envirotechnical regime
Matthew Kelly

12 The woods for the state 
Mat Paskins

13 The UK government’s environmentalism: Britain, NATO
and the origins of environmental diplomacy
Simone Turchetti

14 Simulating the global environment: the British
Government’s response to The Limits to Growth
Thomas Turnbull