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The smoke of London : energy and environment in the early modern city /
"The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution. By 1600, London was a fossil-fueled city, its high-sulfur coal a basic necessity for the poor and a source of cheap energy for its growing manufacturing sector. The resulting smoke...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Conventions; Prologue: The Smoke of London; PartÏ Transformations; 1 The early modernity ofÈLondon; I. Introduction:ẗhis black destroyer; II. Polluting its air: Early modern London in environmental history; III. The great hive:ÈLondon in early modernity; IV. Conclusion:ẗhe social history of urban pollution; 2 Fires:ÈLondon's turn to coal, 1575-1775; I. The gift ofÈcoal; II. Fuel scarcity and the photosynthetic constraint; III. Coal-burningÈLondon.
- IV. Comparisons:Èfuelling early modernÈcitiesV. Conclusion:ä meaningfulẗhing; 3 Airs:Èsmoke and pollution, 1600-1775; I. An excellent air:ẗhe environment of early modernÈLondon; II. Coal smoke and humanḧealth; III. Pollutant levels in early modernÈLondon; IV. Lived experience and local variations; PartÏI Contestations; 4 Royal spaces: palaces and brewhouses, 1575-1640; I. Introduction:È'where the KingÈlives'; II. 'The taste and smell of smoke': Elizabeth and the Brewers; III. 'That ragged, poor, and smoky case': coal smoke and the cathedral under James I.
- IV. 'Offensive to their majesties or their court': smoke and monarchy, 1624-1640V. Conclusion; 5 Nuisance and neighbours; I. Bridgewater's neighbour; II. 'Have an action on the case'; coal smoke and the common law of nuisance; III. 'View it and present it'; environmental policing; IV. 'I should be willing to deal'; private negotiation; V. Conclusion:Èlimits and failures; 6 Smoke in the scientific revolution; I. The death of an old old very oldÈman; II. 'Sulfurous coal':Èsmoke as badäir; III. The decline of environmental demography; IV. Conclusion; PartÏII Fuelling leviathan.
- 7 The moral economy of fuel: coal, poverty, and necessityI. The dangers of the Chatham disaster; II. 'Starving his majesty's poor subjects': fuel as necessity in early modern England; III. 'Want of coals': the London fuel market and the politics of scarcity; IV. 'Will breed a mutiny': fuel supplies and the pursuit of stability; V. Conclusion:ẗhe uses of scarcity; 8 Fuelling improvement: development, navigation, and revenue; I. Houghton's England:Ècoal fires and ghostäcres; II. 'Mechanic professions that require the greatest expense of fuel': coal and the manufacturing economy.
- III. 'Frighten our neighbours': the nursery of marinersIV. 'Upon coals': the coastal trade and the sinews of power; V. Conclusion: nourse and Mandeville on improvement and environment; 9 Regulations: policing markets and suppliers; I. The Queen's speech:È'some regulation'; II. Civic authority and theÈstate; III. 'How to remedy': the state's tools for managing the coal trade; IV. Complementary policies; 10 Protections:ẗhe wartime coalẗrade; I. The Queen's speech:È'convoys for that service'; II. Convoying colliers; III. The price of insecurity; IV. Protection and impressment.