The contamination of the earth : a history of pollution in the industrial age /
"Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a historical point of view make...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | History for a sustainable future
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I: The Industrialization and Liberalization of Environments (1700-1830)
- 1. Sketches: An Ancien Régime of Pollution
- 2. New Polluting Alchemies
- 3. The Regulatory Revolution
- II: Naturalizing Pollutions in the Age of Progress (1830-1914)
- 4. The Dark Side of Progress
- 5. Expertise in the Face of Denial and Alarm
- 6. Regulating and Governing Pollution
- III: New and Massive Scales of Pollution: The Toxic Age (1914-1973)
- 7. Industrial Wars and Pollution
- 8. A High Energy-Consuming World
- 9. Mass Consumption, Mass Contamination
- 10. The Politics of Pollution
- Epilogue: Charging Headlong into the Abyss
- Index