The Contamination of the Earth - A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age

Zusatztext Choice 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 Informationen zum Autor François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux; translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan Klappentext 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 Series 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

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• Authors: Janice Egan, Michael Egan, Francois Jarrige, François Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux, Thomas Le Roux, Thomas Le Roux
• Assisted by: Janice Egan (Translation), Michael Egan (Translation)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2021
• EAN: 9780262542739
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54273-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 221 mm x 29 mm
• Series: History for a Sustainable Future
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change