TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thorsheim,Peter
TI  - Inventing pollution: coal, smoke, and culture in Britain since 1800 
T2  - Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History
SN  - 9780821446270
AV  - TD883 .I584 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Smoke prevention
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Air
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Coal
KW  - Combustion
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Reprint of the 2006 edition with a new preface by the author; 2; List of illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Timelines --; 1. Coal, smoke, and history --; 2. The miasma era --; 3. Pollution redefined --; 4. The balance of nature --; 5. Pollution and civilization --; 6. Degeneration and eugenics --; 7. Environmental activism --; 8. Regulating pollution --; 9. Pollution displacement --; 10. Death comes from the air --; 11. Smokeless zones --; Conclusion : reinventing pollution --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; 2; b
N2  - Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. Yet, for much of the nineteenth century, few people in Britain even considered coal smoke to be pollution. 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. Even as coal production in Britain has plummeted in recent decades, it has surged in other countries. This reissue of Thorsheim's far-reaching study includes a new preface that reveals the book's relevance to the contentious national and international debates--which aren't going away anytime soon--around coal, air pollution more generally, and the grave threat of human-induced climate change
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