Book ID: CBB920250943

The contamination of the earth : a history of pollutions in the industrial age (2020)

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Jarrige, François (Author)
Le Roux, Thomas (Author)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 459
Language: English

Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a historical point of view makes it possible not to sink in the stupefaction or the discouragement vis-a-vis a process which seems to have become inevitable. Because the great movement of contamination of the world that opens with industrialization is above all a social and political fact, marked by successive cycles, power relations, inertia, cultural transformations. By embracing the history of pollution over three hundred years, on a global scale, François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux explore conflicts and the organization of powers in the industrial age, but also the dynamics that have shaped capitalist modernity and his imaginary progress.

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Authors & Contributors
Jarrige, François
Le Roux, Thomas
Sandvik, Pål Thonstad
Bradley D. Snow
Espen Storli
Brad Bolman
Concepts
Global history
Environmental pollution
Science and politics
Public health
Pollution
Industries
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
United States
Latin America
Idaho (U.S.)
Germany
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Great Britain
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