Inventing pollution [electronic resource] : coal, smoke, and culture in Britain since 1800 / Peter Thorsheim.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ohio University Press series in ecology and historyPublication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2006.Description: xii, 307 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.739/20941 22
LOC classification:
  • TD883.7.G7 T48 2006eb
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Contents:
Coal, smoke, and history -- The miasma era -- Pollution redefined -- The balance of nature -- Pollution and civilization -- Degeneration and eugenics -- Environmental activism -- Regulating pollution -- Pollution displacement -- Death comes from the air -- Smokeless zones -- Reinventing pollution.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-291) and index.

Coal, smoke, and history -- The miasma era -- Pollution redefined -- The balance of nature -- Pollution and civilization -- Degeneration and eugenics -- Environmental activism -- Regulating pollution -- Pollution displacement -- Death comes from the air -- Smokeless zones -- Reinventing pollution.

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