Thorsheim, Peter Joseph (Author)
Ohio University Press
Publication date: 2006
Language: English
Physical Details: xii + 307 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Description On the 19th century shift on the understanding of the notion of pollution, and its implication for the early 19th-century view that coal smoke was a disinfectant that would help counteract miasma.
Review Clark, J. F. M. (2007) Review of "Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 858).
Review Mosley, Stephen (2008-9) Review of "Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800". Journal of Social History (p. 507).
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