The Chimney of the World : A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester

ISBN-13: 9780415477673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str.

Stephen Mosley

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of abbreviations.  List of illustrations, figures, and tables.  Acknowledgements.  Map 1. The Cotton Towns of North-West England.  Map 2. Manchester in 1838.  Introduction: Manchester, Air Pollution, and Urban Environmental History.  Part 1: The Nature of Smoke.    Part 2: Stories About Smoke.   Part 3: The Search for Solutions.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Stephen Mosley is senior lecturer in history at Leeds Metropolitan University. His research interests are in urban culture and environmental history.