Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800Britain'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. |
Contents
1 Coal Smoke and History | 1 |
2 The Miasma Era | 10 |
3 Pollution Redefined | 19 |
4 The Balance of Nature | 31 |
5 Pollution and Civilization | 41 |
6 Degeneration and Eugenics | 68 |
7 Environmental Activism | 80 |
8 Regulating Pollution | 110 |
9 Pollution Displacement | 132 |
10 Death Comes from the Air | 159 |
11 Smokeless Zones | 173 |
Reinventing Pollution | 193 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 257 |
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Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 Peter Thorsheim Limited preview - 2018 |
Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800 Peter Thorsheim No preview available - 2018 |