Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 - Hardcover

by Peter Thorsheim (Author)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food.

Author Biography

Peter Thorsheim is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.