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Technology and Nature in American History

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesSTS.036
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2008English
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This course considers how the visual and material world of “nature” has been reshaped by industrial practices, ideologies, and institutions, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Topics include land-use patterns; the changing shape of cities and farms; the redesign of water systems; the construction of roads, dams, bridges, irrigation systems; the creation of national parks; ideas about wilderness; and the role of nature in an industrial world.

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