The contamination of the earth : a history of pollutions in the industrial age /

The contamination of the earth : a history of pollutions in the industrial age /

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Author / Creator:	Jarrige, François, 1978- author.
Uniform title:	Contamination du monde. English. 2020
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	xiv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	History for a sustainable future History for a sustainable future.
Subject:	Pollution -- History. Pollutants -- History. Industries -- History. Environmental engineering. Environmental engineering. Industries. Pollutants. Pollution. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12552161
Related Items:	Translation of: Contamination du monde.

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Other authors / contributors:	Le Roux, Thomas, author. Egan, Janice, translator. Egan, Michael, translator.
ISBN:	9780262043830 0262043831 9780262358132
Notes:	Translation of: La contamination du monde : une histoire des pollutions à l'âge industriel. Published by Éditions du Seuil in Paris, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-417) and index.
Summary:	"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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