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The Age of Smoke : Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History of the Urban Environment SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973508
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Age of SmokeDDC classification:
  • 363.738/70943
LOC classification:
  • RA576
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Age of Smoke -- Chapter 2. Modern Times, Modern Problems: Controlling Smoke, 1880-1914 -- Chapter 3. Pollutants and Politics: Air Pollution Control between the Wars -- Chapter 4. Beyond the Pall of Smoke -- Chapter 5. Going Local, Going National: The Postwar Divergence of Environmental Policy -- Chapter 6. Forerunners and Pioneers -- Chapter 7. Environmental Revolutions and Evolutions -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Was the Environmental Revolution Necessary? -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The Age of Smoke provides an original, comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Age of Smoke -- Chapter 2. Modern Times, Modern Problems: Controlling Smoke, 1880-1914 -- Chapter 3. Pollutants and Politics: Air Pollution Control between the Wars -- Chapter 4. Beyond the Pall of Smoke -- Chapter 5. Going Local, Going National: The Postwar Divergence of Environmental Policy -- Chapter 6. Forerunners and Pioneers -- Chapter 7. Environmental Revolutions and Evolutions -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Was the Environmental Revolution Necessary? -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

The Age of Smoke provides an original, comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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