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Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

Vaclav Smil

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For a survey, I read Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization, by Vaclav Smil (or the first few chapters of it, which were the ones relevant to me).

on blog.rootsofprogress.org · 31 Dec 2017

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