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Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment Edited by Mark A. Largent The increasing importance of science and technology over the past 150 years— and with it the increasing social, political, and economic authority vested in scientists and engineers—established both scientific research and technological innovations as vital components of modern culture. Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment is a collection of books that focuses on humanistic and social science inquiries into the social and political implications of science and technology and their impacts on communities, environments , and cultural movements worldwide. Mark R. Finlay, Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security Jill A. Fisher, Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine Finn Arne Jørgensen, More than a Hole in the Wall: The Story of What We Do With Our Bottles and Cans Gordon Patterson, The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day Jeremy Vetter, Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences ...

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