The present and future state of the environment gives rise to ever increasing concern, but much less is known as yet about the past: the damage that has been do

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how t

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolu

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In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first