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846932
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Thorsheim, Peter
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Inventing pollution : : coal, smoke, and culture in Britain since 1800 /\ Peter Thorsheim.
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| Publication Statement
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Athens, Ohio :: Ohio University Press,, ©2006.
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| Series Statement
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Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
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1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0821416804
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0821416804
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0821416812
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9780821416808
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9780821416815
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-291) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Air-- Pollution-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History.
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Air-- Pollution-- Great Britain-- History.
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Coal-- Combustion-- Health aspects-- Great Britain-- History.
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Environmentalism-- Great Britain-- History.
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Smoke prevention-- Great Britain-- History.
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Air-- Pollution-- Social aspects.
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Air-- Pollution.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.
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Coal-- Combustion-- Health aspects.
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Environmentalism.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Smoke prevention.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Luchtverontreiniging.
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Great Britain.
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.739/20941
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| LC Classification
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TD883.7.G7T48 2006eb
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43.50bcl
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43.50.bcl
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