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The age of smoke : environmental policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970 / Frank Uekoetter.
Van Pelt Library RA576.7.G3 U3413 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uekötter, Frank, 1970-
- Series:
- History of the urban environment
- Standardized Title:
- Von der Rauchplage zur ökologischen Revolution. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Air--Pollution--Germany--History.
- Air.
- Air--Pollution--United States--History.
- Air quality management--Germany--History.
- Air quality management.
- Air quality management--United States--History.
- Smoke prevention--Germany--History.
- Smoke prevention.
- Smoke prevention--United States--History.
- Environmental policy--Germany--History.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental policy--United States--History.
- History.
- Air--Pollution.
- United States.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The age of smoke
- Modern times, modern problems : controlling smoke, 1880-1914
- Pollutants and politics : air pollution control between the wars
- Beyond the pall of smoke
- Going local, going national : the postwar divergence of environmental policy
- Forerunners and pioneers
- Environmental revolutions and evolutions
- Conclusion : Was the environmental revolution necessary?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822943648
- 0822943646
- 9780822960126
- 0822960125
- OCLC:
- 228363884
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