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1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
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Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-291) and index. |
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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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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Annotation Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching study, Peter Thorsheim explains that, for much of the nineteenth century, few people in Britain even considered coal smoke to be pollution. To them, pollution meant miasma: invisible gases generated by decomposing plant and animal matter. Far from viewing coal smoke as pollution, most people considered smoke to be a valuable disinfectant, for its carbon and sulfur were thought capable of rendering miasma harmless. Inventing Pollution examines the radically new understanding of pollution that emerged in the late nineteenth century, one that centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion. This change, as Peter Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Air -- Pollution -- Great Britain -- History.
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Air -- Pollution. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Smoke prevention -- Great Britain -- History.
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Smoke prevention. |
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Environmentalism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Environmentalism. |
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Air -- Pollution -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Air -- Pollution -- Social aspects. |
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Coal -- Combustion -- Health aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Coal -- Combustion -- Health aspects. |
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Coal -- Combustion. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thorsheim, Peter. Inventing pollution. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005029428 |
| ISBN |
9780821442104 (electronic book) |
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0821442104 (electronic book) |
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9780821416808 |
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0821416804 |
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9780821416815 |
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0821416812 |
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