Frank Uekötter

The Age of Smoke

Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Age of Smoke" provides an original, comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780822960126
• ISBN-10: 0822960125
• Artikelnr.: 23911405

Autorenporträt

Frank Uekötter is professor of environmental humanities at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of more than a dozen books on a broad range of environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues. Since October 2021, he is principal investigator of the global history project "The Making of Monoculture" with generous support from a European Research Council Advanced Grant.