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The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
Nature > Ecology
- MIT Press
- Paperback
- 9780262542739
- -
- -
- Nature > Ecology
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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Book Description
Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts--chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast plastic continent found floating in the ocean. The Contamination of the Earth offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early tanneries to the fossil fuel energy regime of the twentieth century.
Author Bio
François Jarrige is interested in the history of industrial societies and questions the conflicts, debates and controversies that accompany technical changes and industrialization in the West.
In continuation of its work on the social history of technology and mechanization in the XIX th century, his current research focuses on the history of pollution and the development of energy systems, they try to reconcile conflict studies social issues that revolve around environmental issues and the analysis of the intellectual controversies that accompanied the genesis of industrial society.
Research Interests
History of industrialization and its social and ecological impacts.
History of energy and socio-technical changes.
History of work and workers' worlds.
History of collective protests and socialism in the XIX th century.
Source: University of Burgundy
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