{"product_id":"inventing-pollution-peter-thorsheim-9780821423110","title":"Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoing 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 pollution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventing Pollution\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven as coal production in Britain has plummeted in recent decades, it has surged in other countries. This reissue of Thorsheim's far-reaching study includes a new preface that reveals the book's relevance to the contentious national and international debates--which aren't going away anytime soon--around coal, air pollution more generally, and the grave threat of human-induced climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Thorsheim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821423118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821423110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Peter Thorsheim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46199058694399,"sku":"9780821423110","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa541d30-c964-4849-9d4a-c13ded0f3123.jpg?v=1727924911","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-pollution-peter-thorsheim-9780821423110","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}