The Invention of Industrial Pasts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Industrial Pasts write by Peter Itzen. This book was released on 2013. The Invention of Industrial Pasts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pennsylvania in Public Memory
Pennsylvania in Public Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pennsylvania in Public Memory write by Carolyn Kitch. This book was released on 2015-06-26. Pennsylvania in Public Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopaedia Britannica write by Hugh Chisholm. This book was released on 1910. Encyclopaedia Britannica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Industrial Revolution in World History
The Industrial Revolution in World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Industrial Revolution in World History write by Peter N Stearns. This book was released on 2012-08-07. The Industrial Revolution in World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary world. With new methods and organizations for producing goods, industrialization altered where people live, how they play, and even how they define political issues. By exploring the ways the industrial revolution reshaped world history, this book offers a unique look into the international factors that started the industrial revolution and its global spread and impact. In the fourth edition, noted historian Peter N. Stearns continues his global analysis of the industrial revolution with new discussions of industrialization outside of the West, including the study of India, the Middle East, and China. In addition, an expanded conclusion contains an examination of the changing contexts of industrialization. The Industrial Revolution in World History is essential for students of world history and economics, as well as for those seeking to know more about the global implications of what is arguably the defining socioeconomic event of modern times.
The Contamination of the Earth
The Contamination of the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contamination of the Earth write by Francois Jarrige. This book was released on 2020-07-21. The Contamination of the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts—chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast “plastic continent” found floating in the ocean. The Contamination of the Earth offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early tanneries to the fossil fuel energy regime of the twentieth century. The authors describe how, from 1750 onward, in contrast to the early modern period, polluted water and air came to be seen as inevitable side effects of industrialization, which was universally regarded as beneficial. By the nineteenth century, pollutants became constituent elements of modernity. The authors trace the evolution of these various pollutions, and describe the ways in which they were simultaneously denounced and permitted. The twentieth century saw new and massive scales of pollution: chemicals that resisted biodegradation, including napalm and other defoliants used as weapons of war; the ascendancy of oil; and a lifestyle defined by consumption. In the 1970s, pollution became a political issue, but efforts—local, national, and global—to regulate it often fell short. Viewing the history of pollution though a political lens, the authors also offer lessons for the future of the industrial world.
