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Autor:
Bill Luckin, Peter Thorsheim
Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by i
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim
Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim
During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim
Publikováno v:
Business History. 64:963-983
Ferrous scrap is a vital ingredient in the manufacture of steel, and it constitutes a strategic material of the greatest significance in modern warfare. During the late 1930s, Britain exported cons...
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim
Publikováno v:
Smoke and Mirrors ISBN: 9780814785430
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::e76fdf440a9629395aad89c9c0895ce5
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814785430.003.0011
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814785430.003.0011
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim, Bill Luckin
Publikováno v:
A Mighty Capital under Threat
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::5ae687152b63d9a9c05a61d27393d2b5
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxkn5q7.3
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxkn5q7.3
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim
Publikováno v:
A Mighty Capital under Threat
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::602c8d50530daebe8976d514e48b7620
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxkn5q7.8
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxkn5q7.8
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim
Publikováno v:
Cultural and Social History. 15:294-295
Autor:
Peter Thorsheim
Publikováno v:
Contemporary European History. 22:431-452
An analysis of Great Britain's campaigns to recycle books and paper reveals the paradoxes of wartime waste policies: destroying history and culture for the sake of reusing materials, and the impact of recycling on the war machinery's own wastefulness