Inventing pollution [electronic resource] : coal, smoke, and culture in Britain since 1800 / Peter Thorsheim.
By: Thorsheim, Peter.
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BookSeries: Ohio University Press series in ecology and history: Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2006Description: xii, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Air -- Pollution -- Great Britain -- History | Smoke prevention -- Great Britain -- History | Environmentalism -- Great Britain -- History | Air -- Pollution -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History | Coal -- Combustion -- Health aspects -- Great Britain -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.739/20941 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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