Sulphuric utopias a history of maritime fumigation
"Sulphuric Utopias presents the comprehensive history of fumigation in early-twentieth-century global health. It tells the story of a technology that transformed global practices of maritime quarantine through the combination of chemical and engineering innovation. Fumigation combined chemical...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Inside technology
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654260106719 |
Table of Contents:
- Fumigation, disinfection and quarantine
- The birth of the Clayton in New Orleans
- Rat destruction in Istanbul and Hamburg
- Clayton and the "defence of Europe"
- Stabilising fumigation
- Fumigating the nation--the Sulfurozador in Argentina
- The demise of Sulphur.
