The Smoke of London. Energy and environment in the early modern city

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Scholarly work for a broad audience. Provides an environmental account of London in the 17th and 18th centuries, focused on coal burning and smoke pollution and drawing on a range of history disciplines to provide wide ranging insights. Deals with coal consumption domestically and by industry, notably brewing, coal supply and distribution. Structured in four parts, viz: 1] 'Transformations' - 'The early modernity of London' / 'Fires - London's turn to coal, 1575-1775' / 'Airs: smoke and pollution, 1600-1775'; 2] 'Contestations' - 'Royal spaces - palaces and brewhouses, 1575-1640' / 'Nuisance and neighbours' / 'Smoke in the scientific revolution'; 3] 'Fueling Leviathan' - 'The moral economy of fuel - coal, poverty, and necessity' / 'Fueling improvement - development, navigation, and revenue' / 'Regulations - policing markets and suppliers' / 'Protections - the wartime coal trade'; 4] 'Accommodations' - 'Evelyn's place - fumifugium and the royal retreat from urban smoke' / 'Representations - coal smoke as urban life' / 'Movements - avoiding the smoky city'