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The Chimney of the World - Stephen (Leeds Metropolitan University Mosley - Bog

- A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester

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Traces competing narratives of smoke, and examines how the rhetoric of smoke was used by contemporaries to rationalise, naturalise or criticise the dramatic changes wrought by air pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. This book explains why a century of campaigning did so little to reduce the city's pollution.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780415477673
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 284
  • Udgivet:
  • 30. juni 2008
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x18 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 530 g.
  • 2-4 uger.
  • 17. december 2024
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Traces competing narratives of smoke, and examines how the rhetoric of smoke was used by contemporaries to rationalise, naturalise or criticise the dramatic changes wrought by air pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. This book explains why a century of campaigning did so little to reduce the city's pollution.

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