The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Martin Reuss and Stephen H. Cutcli√e Part I Nature, Technology, and the Human Element Understanding the Place of Humans in Nature 9 James C. Williams Our Bodies and Our Histories of Technology and the Environment 26 Joy Parr Can Nature Improve Technology? 43 Peter Coates Part II Constructing Landscape The Nature of Industrialization 69 Sara B. Pritchard and Thomas Zeller Is There a Chinese View of Technology and Nature? 101 Peter C. Perdue Out West in Places and Spaces 120 William D. Rowley vi | Contents Part III Development and Waste The City as an Artifact of Technology and the Environment 145 Joel A. Tarr Waste and Pollution: Changing Views and Environmental Consequences 171 Craig E. Colten Part IV Biology and Technology Are Tomatoes Natural? 211 Ann Vileisis Can Organisms Be Technology? 249 Edmund Russell Part V Historiographic Retrospect and Concluding Reflections Where Does Nature End and Culture Begin? Converging Themes 265 in the History of Technology and Environmental History Hugh S. Gorman and Betsy Mendelsohn Afterword 291 Martin Reuss Notes on Contributors 303 Index 307 ...