Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800
(Part of the Series in Ecology and History Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0821423118
ISBN13:9780821423110
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:Ohio University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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