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Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain - The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain - The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
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Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading
investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study
of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his
childhood, education, beliefs, family, interests and influences
sheds light on the evolving understanding of sanitary science
during the nineteenth century. Born in Glasgow and initially
trained for a career in the Church of Scotland, Smith instead went
on to study chemistry in Germany under Justus von Liebig. On his
return to Manchester in the 1840s, Smith's strong Calvinist faith
lead him to develop a strong concern for the insanitary
environmental conditions in Manchester and other industrial towns
in Britain. His appointment as Inspector of the Alkali
Administration in 1863 enabled him to marry his social concerns and
his work as an analytical chemist, and this book explores his role
as Inspector of the Administration from its inception through
battles with chemical manufacturers in the courts, to the struggle
to widen and tighten the regulatory framework as other harmful
chemical nuisances became known. This study of Smith's life and
work provides an important background to the way that 'chemical'
came to have such negative connotations in the century before
publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It also offers a
fascinating insight into the changing landscape of British politics
as regulation and enforcement of the chemical industries came to be
seen as necessary, and is essential reading for historians of
science, technology and industry in the nineteenth century, as well
as environmental historians seeking background context to the
twentieth-century environmental movements.
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