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

by Peter Thorsheim

Book Overview

Going 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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821416812
• ISBN13: 9780821416815
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"