The Chimney of the World

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A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester

By: Stephen Mosley

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Paperback | 30 June 2008 | Edition Number 1

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In this innovative contribution to the field of environmental history, Stephen Mosley explores the devastating human and environmental costs of smoke pollution in the world's first industrial city.

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'The great strength of Stephen Mosley's The Chimney of the World is its melding of environmental and cultural history, which lends and added dimension to his rich and original study' - Matthew Osborn, "Business History Review" 'This is a joy to read, often unearthing some of the more suprising attitudes to smoke emissions, for example the once popular belief that sulphurous acid in coal acted as a disinfectant, purifying town air ... [The book] establishes itself as not only a leader within the discipline of British urban environmental history, but as a benchmark for others to follow.' - Jodie Thorne, "Albion Reviews of Books" 'Mosley has given us a beautifully crafter and well-researched book, a pioneering contribution that should certainly be considered required reading for urban environmental historians'. - Christopher Hamblin, "University of Notre Dame"

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List of abbreviations
List of illustrations, figures, and tables
Acknowledgements
The Cotton Towns of North-West England
Manchester in 1838
Introduction: Manchester, Air Pollution, and Urban Environmental History
Manchester: setting the scene
The historiographical setting
A note on methodology
The Nature of Smoke
Coal, steam and people
Sensing smoke
The influence of climate and topography
Blackening the face of nature
Smoke and architecture
The urban smoke cycle
Living with smoke
Smoke and health
Accommodating smoke
Stories About Smoke. Wealth and well-being
'the golden breath of life'
'Fireside bliss'
Disinfecting the urban atmosphere
'Beautiful Manchester'
Waste and inefficiency
The 'Black Smoke Tax'
Energy and entropy
Smoke, the destroyer of health
Smoke and degeneration
The 'unloveliness' of Manchester
Choosing to live with smoke
The Search for Solutions
Setting the agenda for change
The Manchester Association for the Prevention of Smoke
The technological response to smoke
The politics of smoke pollution
Legal responses to smoke
MAPS in brief
The search for solutions continues
The Manchester and Salford Noxious Vapours Abatement
Association
The technological response to smoke
A change of tactics
Legal responses to smoke
The Smoke Abatement League
The NVAA and the Smoke Abatement League in brief
Epilogue: Too Little, Too Late? Making connections
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Chimney of the World

A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester

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