Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution

by E. Melanie DuPuis

Book Overview

Who gets to breathe clean air? Who benefits from the cheaper products produced with dirty air? The answers, as the contributors to Smoke and Mirrors tell us, are sometimes as gray as the air itself.
From the coal factory chimneys in Manchester in the late nineteenth century to the smog hanging over Los Angeles in the late twentieth century, air pollution has long been one of the greatest threats to our environment. In this important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814719619
• ISBN13: 9780814719619
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"