The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History

by Paul Josephson

Book Overview

The view of nature and technology inhabiting totally different, even opposite, spheres persists across time and cultures. Most people would consider an English countryside or a Louisiana bayou to be "natural," though each is to an extent the product of technology. Pollution, widely thought to be a purely man-made phenomenon, results partly from natural processes. All around us, things from the natural world are brought into the human world. At...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392989X
• ISBN13: 9780813929897
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"