{"product_id":"the-contamination-of-the-earth-isbn-9780262542739","title":"The Contamination of the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts--chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast \"plastic continent\" found floating in the ocean. \u003ci\u003eThe Contamination of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early tanneries to the fossil fuel energy regime of the twentieth century.Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003eI The Industrialization and Liberalization of Environments (1700–1830) 11\u003cbr\u003e1 Sketches: An Ancien Régime of Pollution 17\u003cbr\u003e2 New Polluting Alchemies 39\u003cbr\u003e3 The Regulatory Revolution 63\u003cbr\u003eII Naturalizing Pollutions in the Age of Progress (1830–1914) 87\u003cbr\u003e4 The Dark Side of Progress 91\u003cbr\u003e5 Expertise in the Face of Denial and Alarm 116\u003cbr\u003e6 Regulating and Governing Pollution 144\u003cbr\u003eIII New and Massive Scales of Pollution: The Toxic Age (1914–1973) 177\u003cbr\u003e7 Industrial Wars and Pollution 183\u003cbr\u003e8 A High Energy-Consuming World 205\u003cbr\u003e9 Mass Consumption, Mass Contamination 231\u003cbr\u003e10 The Politics of Pollution 260\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Charging Headlong into the Abyss 294\u003cbr\u003eNotes 333\u003cbr\u003eIndex 419\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 2021 Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Contamination of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is  not a balanced view of technological progress; that is not its purpose.  It is a clear and relentless exposure of the forces that have converged  to ravage our environment. And it should prompt scientists and citizens  to ask: am I complicit in this system? Or will I try to stand against  it?\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholarly rather than polemical and of interest to students of environmental and economic history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e – \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The result [of the study] is impressive: a high level of information, extensive analyses with a wide scope, original propositions, and a new, historical picture of global pollution. The book will become a standard work in environmental history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Harry Lintsen, \u003ci\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“How well do we need to understand industrial pollution and the public health sacrifices that are made by allowing it to continue before we stop it? Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux broach that question in this superb history. With \u003ci\u003eContamination of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethey challenge once again the Faustian bargain humanity is making with ‘progress.’”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMark Dowie, investigative historian and Lecturer Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLosing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Centur\u003c\/b\u003ey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jarrige and Le Roux’s magisterial global history of pollutions delivers on its promise. Spanning time, geography, and industry, their account synthesizes a vast historical archive with a sharp focus on the political and economic factors that explain how, why, and where global environmental contamination developed.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJulie Sze, University of California, Davis, and author of \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Justice in a Moment of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Contamination of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential corrective to how pollution(s)—fittingly pluralized—have been studied age by age, case by case, sector by sector. Few have attempted such a sweeping synthesis of pollutions’ myriad drivers and consequences.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRebecca Gasior Altman, writer and environmental sociologist\u003c\/b\u003eFrançois Jarrige is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Burgundy's Georges Chevrier Centre. Thomas Le Roux is a tenured Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Centre for Historical Research in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CRH-EHESS) in Paris.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302136303845,"sku":"NP9780262542739","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542739.jpg?v=1767738825","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-contamination-of-the-earth-isbn-9780262542739","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}