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Smoke - History

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Works from the collections

4 works

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    Coal : a human history / Barbara Freese.

    | Barbara E. Freese | Date: 2005
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    The chimney of the world : a history of smoke pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester / by Stephen Mosley.

    | Stephen Mosley | Date: 2001
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    Inventing air pollution : the social construction of smoke in Britain, 1880-1920 / by Peter Joseph Thorsheim.

    | Peter Thorsheim | Date: 2000
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    "The chimney of the world" : a history of smoke pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester / by Stephen Moseley.

    | Stephen Mosley | Date: 1998

Related topics

19th-20th centuries
Air Pollution

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