The Smoke Of London

Author : William M. Cavert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107073006
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smoke of London written by William M. Cavert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William M. Cavert investigates the origins of urban air pollution, explaining how this problem arose during the early modern period.

Author : William M. Cavert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316586308
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smoke of London written by William M. Cavert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution. By 1600, London was a fossil-fuelled city, its high-sulfur coal a basic necessity for the poor and a source of cheap energy for its growing manufacturing sector. The resulting smoke was found ugly and dangerous throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, leading to challenges in court, suppression by the crown, doctors' attempts to understand the nature of good air, increasing suburbanization, and changing representations of urban life in poetry and on the London stage. Neither a celebratory account of proto-environmentalism nor a declensionist narrative of degradation, The Smoke of London recovers the seriousness of pre-modern environmental concerns even as it explains their limits and failures. Ultimately, Londoners learned to live with their dirty air, an accommodation that reframes the modern process of urbanization and industrial pollution, both in Britain and beyond.

Author : Christine L. Corton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088352
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Fog written by Christine L. Corton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic London fogs—thick yellow “pea-soupers”—were born in the industrial age and remained a feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and the lasting effects on our culture and imagination of these urban spectacles.

Author : Peter Brimblecombe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136703292
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Smoke (Routledge Revivals) written by Peter Brimblecombe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Peter Brimblecombe's book provides an engaging historical account of air pollution in London, offering a fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls against a changing social and economic background. He examines domestic and industrial pollution and their effects on fashions, furnishings, buildings and human health. The book ends with an intriguing analysis of the dangers arising from contemporary pollutants and a glimpse of what the future may hold for London.

Author : Kate Winkler Dawson
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316506850
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in the Air written by Kate Winkler Dawson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his decrepit Notting Hill flat during that dark winter. They never left. The eventual arrest of the "Beast of Rillington Place" caused a media frenzy: were there more bodies buried in the walls, under the floorboards, in the back garden of this house of horrors? Was it the fog that had caused Christie to suddenly snap? And what role had he played in the notorious double murder that had happened in that same apartment building not three years before--a murder for which another, possibly innocent, man was sent to the gallows? The Great Smog of 1952 remains the deadliest air pollution disaster in world history, and John Reginald Christie is still one of the most unfathomable serial killers of modern times. Journalist Kate Winkler Dawson braids these strands together into a taut, compulsively readable true crime thriller about a man who changed the fate of the death penalty in the UK, and an environmental catastrophe with implications that still echo today.

Author : Tony Broadbent
Publisher : Bright Sparks
ISBN 13 : 9781849821520
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smoke written by Tony Broadbent and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up in one of London's famed street markets, Jethro the cat burglar is as smart as he is streetwise, which is just as well, as he always needs all of his wits about him to pull off the perfect job and not get caught. After he breaks into the Soviet embassy and steals jewels belonging to the ambassador's wife, Jethro comes to the attention of His Majesty's Secret Service, who forces him to revisit the place again to retrieve a code book for them. But this is all just a set up for a thief to catch a thief, and it leads to a deadly game of cat and mouse to see who will get to Jethro first: London's gangsters, MI5, or one of the Soviet's most formidable secret agents.

Author : John Evelyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fumifugium, Or, The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated written by John Evelyn and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479455121
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tiger in the Smoke written by Margery Allingham and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During WWII, Meg was told her husband had been killed. After the war Meg meets Geoffery and gets engaged. She finally feels like she can let go of the past and be happy again. That is until she starts receiving current photos of a man that looks very much like her dead husband. She turns to Albert and Amanda Campion for help. Meanwhile, the police are searching for an escaped convict who is on a murdering spree. Murders that are connected to Meg's dead husband, and Geoffery has gone missing...

Author : Maureen Johnson
Publisher : Hot Key Books
ISBN 13 : 1471403947
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy in the Smoke written by Maureen Johnson and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SHADES OF LONDON exclusive World Book Day story On a cold night, Stephen Dene went to the Eton boathouse to perform a desperate act. But someone stopped him along the way, sending his life in a new and decidedly strange direction--leading him to London, to two new friends, and to a world of shadows and mystery.

Author : Lynda Nead
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 : 9780300214604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tiger in the Smoke written by Lynda Nead and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tiger in the smoke -- Broken buildings and 'horrid empty spaces' -- To let in the sunlight -- Learning to think in colour -- 'Thirty thousand colour problems' -- Battersea, Whitechapel and the colours of culture -- Bill and Betty set up home -- An English Sunday afternoon -- Woman in a dressing gown