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Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 - Couverture souple

Livre 15 sur 22: Environment in History: International Perspectives
 
9781800734340: Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
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ISBN 10 : 1800734344 ISBN 13 : 9781800734340
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2022

Synopsis

Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both notorious and little-known chemicals, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted. Each study situates chemical hazards in a long-term and transnational framework and demonstrates the importance of considering both the natural and the social contexts in which their histories have unfolded.

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À propos des auteurs

Ernst Homburg is Professor of History of Science and Technology Emeritus at Maastricht University. His scholarly work has included the co-editorship of two multivolume book series on the history of technology in the Netherlands, as well as of New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2007), and Solvay: History of a Multinational Family Firm (2012, with Kenneth Bertrams and Nicolas Coupain).



Elisabeth Vaupel studied chemistry, biology and history in Mainz, Freiburg/Breisgau and Munich. She is a historian of chemistry in the research institute of the Deutsches Museum, where she was previously head of the chemistry department. She also teaches the history of chemistry at Stuttgart University. She is co-editor of Das Deutsche Museum in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme (2010, with Stefan L. Wolff).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1800734344
ISBN 13 
9781800734340
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
422
Éditeur
Homburg Ernst, Vaupel Elisabeth
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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