Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation

by Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris

Book Overview

How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fumigation technologies transformed global practices of maritime quarantine through chemical and engineering innovation. One of these technologies, the widely used Clayton machine, blasted sulphuric acid gas through a docked ship in an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262538733
• ISBN13: 9780262538732
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"