Francois Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux

The Contamination of the Earth

A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
Übersetzer: Egan, Janice; Egan, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• History for a Sustainable Future
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 141mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780262542739
• ISBN-10: 0262542730
• Artikelnr.: 60895849

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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