Sulphuric utopias : : a history of maritime fumigation / / Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris.
"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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| Superior document: | Inside technology |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inside technology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.