Mohlo by sa vám tiež páčiť

Viac informácií o knihe Inventing Pollution

• Parametre knihy
• Anotácia kniha
• Obľúbené z iného súdka

Nákupom získate 148 bodov

Anotácia knihy

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.

Parametre knihy

Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Celý názov: Inventing Pollution
• Podnázov: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800
• Autor: Peter Thorsheim
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 360
• EAN: 9780821416808
• ISBN: 0821416804
• ID: 04935488
• Nakladateľ: Ohio University Press
• Hmotnosť: 585 g
• Rozmery: 229 × 152 × 26 mm
• Dátum vydania: 25. March 2006

Obľúbené z iného súdka

---

---

---