The contamination of the earth : a history of pollution in the industrial age / François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux ; translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarrige, François, 1978- author.

Le Roux, Thomas, author.

Series:

History for a sustainable future.

History for a sustainable future

Standardized Title:

Contamination du monde. English.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Pollution--History.

Pollution.

Industries--History.

Industries.

Environmental engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

"Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a historical point of view makes it possible not to sink in the stupefaction or the discouragement vis-a-vis a process which seems to have become inevitable. Because the great movement of contamination of the world that opens with industrialization is above all a social and political fact, marked by successive cycles, power relations, inertia, cultural transformations. By embracing the history of pollution over three hundred years, on a global scale, François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux explore conflicts and the organization of powers in the industrial age, but also the dynamics that have shaped capitalist modernity and his imaginary progress"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: The Industrialization and Liberalization of Environments (1700-1830)

1. Sketches: An Ancien Régime of Pollution

2. New Polluting Alchemies

3. The Regulatory Revolution

II: Naturalizing Pollutions in the Age of Progress (1830-1914)

4. The Dark Side of Progress

5. Expertise in the Face of Denial and Alarm

6. Regulating and Governing Pollution

III: New and Massive Scales of Pollution: The Toxic Age (1914-1973)

7. Industrial Wars and Pollution

8. A High Energy-Consuming World

9. Mass Consumption, Mass Contamination

10. The Politics of Pollution

Epilogue: Charging Headlong into the Abyss

Index.

Notes:

Translation of: La contamination du monde : une histoire des pollutions à l'âge industriel by Éditions du Seuil in Paris, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-35813-1

0-262-35814-X

OCLC:

1159760997