Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800 by Thorsheim, Peter

Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780821416808)

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Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800 by Thorsheim, Peter

Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800

$55.00
Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800 by Thorsheim, Peter

Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800

$55.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Peter Thorsheim
ISBN-10: 0821416804
ISBN-13: 9780821416808
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2006
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.32w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2006 pg. 114
Choice 12/01/2006 pg. 666
By Peter Thorsheim
By Peter Thorsheim
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Peter Thorsheim is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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