Inventing Pollution

Name: Inventing Pollution
Brand: Ohio University Press
SKU: 9780821416808
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Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800

Szerző: Peter Thorsheim

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Ohio University Press

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Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. T...

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Szerző

Peter Thorsheim

Nyelv

Angol

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Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2006

oldal

360

EAN

9780821416808

ISBN

0821416804

Enbook ID

04935488

Kiadó

Ohio University Press

Súly

585

Méretek

152 x 229 x 26

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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.

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