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Contamination of the Earth : A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age by Thomas Le Roux and François Jarrige (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262542730
ISBN-139780262542739
eBay Product ID (ePID)3050033376
Product Key Features
Book TitleContamination Of the Earth : a History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEnvironmental / General, Ecology, Modern / 19th Century, Global Warming & Climate Change
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Technology & Engineering, Science, History
AuthorThomas Le Roux, François Jarrige
Book SeriesHistory for a Sustainable Future Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21.4 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-028395
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsChoice 2021 Outstanding Academic Title " The Contamination of the Earth is not a balanced view of technological progress; that is not its purpose. It is a clear and relentless exposure of the forces that have converged to ravage our environment. And it should prompt scientists and citizens to ask: am I complicit in this system? Or will I try to stand against it?" - Nature "Scholarly rather than polemical and of interest to students of environmental and economic history." - Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal363.7309
Table Of ContentSeries Foreword vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I The Industrialization and Liberalization of Environments (1700-1830) 11 1 Sketches: An Ancien Régime of Pollution 17 2 New Polluting Alchemies 39 3 The Regulatory Revolution 63 II Naturalizing Pollutions in the Age of Progress (1830-1914) 87 4 The Dark Side of Progress 91 5 Expertise in the Face of Denial and Alarm 116 6 Regulating and Governing Pollution 144 III New and Massive Scales of Pollution: The Toxic Age (1914-1973) 177 7 Industrial Wars and Pollution 183 8 A High Energy-Consuming World 205 9 Mass Consumption, Mass Contamination 231 10 The Politics of Pollution 260 Epilogue: Charging Headlong into the Abyss 294 Notes 333 Index 419
SynopsisThe trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts--chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast "plastic continent" found floating in the ocean. The Contamination of the Earth offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early tanneries to the fossil fuel energy regime of the twentieth century.
LC Classification NumberTD174.J37713 2021
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