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

by Peter Thorsheim

Book Overview

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821416804
• ISBN13: 9780821416808
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"