In Technology and the Environment in History, Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring adopt an analytical approach to explore current research at the intersection of environmental history and the history of technology-an emerging field known as envirotech. They discuss the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech. Aimed at students and scholars new to environmental history, the history of technology, and their nexus; this impressive synthesis looks outward and forward-identifying promising areas in more formative stages of intellectual development and current synergies with related areas that have emerged in the past few years, including environmental anthropology, discard studies, and posthumanism.
In Technology and the Environment in History, Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring adopt an analytical approach to explore current research at the intersection of environmental history and the history of technology-an emerging field known as envirotech. They discuss the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech. Aimed at students and scholars new to environmental history, the history of technology, and their nexus; this impressive synthesis looks outward and forward-identifying promising areas in more formative stages of intellectual development and current synergies with related areas that have emerged in the past few years, including environmental anthropology, discard studies, and posthumanism.
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