Inventing Pollution : Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 /

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Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities...

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Autor principal: Thorsheim, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Smoke prevention.
Environmentalism.
Coal > Combustion > Health aspects.
Air > Pollution > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Environnementalisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Fumee > Lutte contre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Coal > Combustion > Health aspects > Great Britain > History.
Air > Pollution > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Environmentalism > Great Britain > History.
Smoke prevention > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Timelines
  • 1. Coal, smoke, and history
  • 2. The miasma era
  • 3. Pollution redefined
  • 4. The balance of nature
  • 5. Pollution and civilization
  • 6. Degeneration and eugenics
  • 7. Environmental activism
  • 8. Regulating pollution
  • 9. Pollution displacement
  • 10. Death comes from the air
  • 11. Smokeless zones
  • Conclusion : reinventing pollution
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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