"Stimulating - drawing out ideas in a novel and refreshing way" Dr Paul S Ganderton, Teaching Ecology Group'Timescapes of Modernity represents an important argument for the centrality of time in generating,defining and responding to environmental issues. It deserves to be widely read within academic and policy circles' Hilary Rose, Research Professor, City University London - Time and Society Vol 9 (1)'The book is a truly worthwhile read' - Anne Buttimer, University College Dublin - Progress in Human Geography 25,2 (2001)

• List of plates, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Habits of the mind: environmental timescapes conceptualised, 1. Nature re/constituted and re/conceptualised, 2. It’s all about money, isn’t it?, PART II. The eye of time on the industrial way of life, 3. Square pegs into round holes, 4. Industrial food for thought, 5. Mediated knowledge, 6. Radiated identities, 7. Genies on the loose: what now Aladdin?, References, Index

"Stimulating - drawing out ideas in a novel and refreshing way" Dr Paul S Ganderton, Teaching Ecology Group'Timescapes of Modernity represents an important argument for the centrality of time in generating,defining and responding to environmental issues. It deserves to be widely read within academic and policy circles' Hilary Rose, Research Professor, City University London - Time and Society Vol 9 (1)'The book is a truly worthwhile read' - Anne Buttimer, University College Dublin - Progress in Human Geography 25,2 (2001)

• List of plates, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Habits of the mind: environmental timescapes conceptualised, 1. Nature re/constituted and re/conceptualised, 2. It’s all about money, isn’t it?, PART II. The eye of time on the industrial way of life, 3. Square pegs into round holes, 4. Industrial food for thought, 5. Mediated knowledge, 6. Radiated identities, 7. Genies on the loose: what now Aladdin?, References, Index