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Author Dewey, Scott Hamilton.

Title Don't breathe the air : air pollution and U.S. environmental politics, 1945-1970 / Scott Hamilton Dewey.

Publication Info. College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, [2000]
©2000

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (10, 321 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Environmental history series ; no. 16
Environmental history series ; no. 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Recurring cycles: a brief history of air pollution and control efforts in Britain and the United States before 1945 -- Trouble in paradise: the discovery of smog -- Smog town vs. the motor city: taming the automobile -- Folklore: the public confronts smog -- Reinventing the wheel: air pollution control policy in New York City, 1945-70 -- A fight to the finish: the publics crusade against air pollution -- Jersey: the interstate dilemma -- The fickle finger of phosphate: industrial air pollution in rural central Florida -- Conference, conciliation, and persuasion: public anger, official inaction -- The perils of federalism: the intrastate dilemma -- The three-thousand-mile-long sewer: air pollution as a national problem.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Air -- Pollution -- United States -- History.
Air -- Pollution.
United States.
History.
Environmentalism -- United States -- History.
Environmentalism.
Environmental policy -- United States -- History.
Environmental policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Dewey, Scott Hamilton. Don't breathe the air. 1st ed. College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2000 0890969140 (DLC) 99088267 (OCoLC)42968130
ISBN 0585376867 (electronic book)
9780585376868 (electronic book)
0890969140
9780890969144