The Contamination of the Earth
A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
(Sprache: Englisch)
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century.
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The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Contamination of the Earth “
Series Foreword viiAcknowledgments 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
Autoren-Porträt von Francois Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux
François Jarrige is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Burgundy's Georges Chevrier Centre. Thomas Le Roux is a tenured Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Centre for Historical Research in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CRH-EHESS) in Paris.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Francois Jarrige , Thomas Le Roux
- 2021, XIV, 459 Seiten, 27 Schwarz-Weiss-Abbildungen, Masse: 14,1 x 22 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Janice Egan, Michael Egan
- Verlag: The MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 0262542730
- ISBN-13: 9780262542739
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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