Education:
Ph.D., University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
Research Interests:
Modern Britain, environmental history, and the
history of science, technology, and medicine.
Recent Publications:
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Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture
in Britain since 1800
(Ohio University Press, 2006).
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"Green Space and Class in
Imperial London," in The Nature of Cities:
Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed.
Andrew C. Isenberg (University of Rochester
Press, 2006).
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"Interpreting the London Fog Disaster of 1952,"
in Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and
Culture of Air Pollution, ed. E. Melanie
Dupuis (New York University Press, 2004).
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"The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels: Gas, Coke, and
the Environment in Britain, 1813-1949,"
Environment and History 8 (2002): 381-401.
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"The Smoke of Great Cities:
British and American Efforts to Control Air
Pollution, 1860-1914" (co-authored with David
Stradling), Environmental History 4
(January 1999): 6-31.
Current Projects:
Currently I am working on three projects:
a study of the conversion of cemeteries into parks
and playgrounds in late nineteenth-century London,
an environmental history of the Second World War
in Britain, and a history of British environmental
reform movements.
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