The Contamination of the Earth
By Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux
Translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan
By Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux
Translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan
By Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux
Translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan
By Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux
Translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan
Part of History for a Sustainable Future
Part of History for a Sustainable Future
Category: Science & Technology | World History
Category: Science & Technology | World History
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$19.95
Nov 16, 2021 | ISBN 9780262542739
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Jul 21, 2020 | ISBN 9780262358149
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Praise
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
“The result [of the study] is impressive: a high level of information, extensive analyses with a wide scope, original propositions, and a new, historical picture of global pollution. The book will become a standard work in environmental history.”
—Harry Lintsen, Technology & Culture
Table Of Contents
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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