Inventing pollution [electronic resource] : coal, smoke, and culture in Britain since 1800 / Peter Thorsheim.
Series: Ohio University Press series in ecology and historyPublication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2006.Description: xii, 307 p. : illISBN:- 0821416804 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0821416812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 363.739/20941 22
- TD883.7.G7 T48 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-291) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.