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  • Inventing Pollution

    Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800

    by Peter Thorsheim, Peter Thorsheim ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain’s supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain’s cities and towns filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. Yet, for much of the nineteenth century, few ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • A Mighty Capital under Threat

    The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000

    Edited by Bill Luckin, Peter Thorsheim ...
    Series series
    Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Technology and Practice of Passwords

    9th International Conference, PASSWORDS 2015, Cambridge, UK, December 7-9, 2015, Proceedings

    Edited by Frank Stajano, Stig F. Mjølsnes, Graeme Jenkinson, Per Thorsheim ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the 9th International Conference on Passwords, PASSWORDS2015, held in Cambridge, UK, in December 2015.The 6 revised full papers presented together with 3 revised short paperswere carefully reviewed and selected from 32 initial submissions. Thepapers are organized in topical sections on human factors, attacks, and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Waste into Weapons

    Recycling in Britain during the Second World War

    by Peter Thorsheim ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Ten Tall Tales of the Old West

    by Kevin Thorsheim ...
    Ten short stories of a fictional and hilarious, Old West. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • The Making of Modern Britain

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  • Sackett

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  • Bridging Two Peoples

    Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843–1909

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