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Selected Publications (click for links)<\/h3>\n

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“Poisonous Workplaces: What Workers Faced in British Chemical Weapons Factories,”<\/a> Technology and Culture<\/i>,\u00a065, no. 4 <\/i>(2024), 1135\u20131160.<\/p>\n

“Trading with the Enemy? The Flow of Scrap between Britain and Germany from Pre-war Rearmament to Post-war Reconstruction,”<\/a>\u00a0Business History<\/em> 64, no. 2 (2022): 963-83.<\/p>\n

A Mighty Capital und<\/em>er Threat:<\/em>The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000, <\/em><\/a>co-edited with Bill Luckin. The History of the Urban Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800<\/em>.<\/a> Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Chinese edition<\/a> published in 2016. Second US edition, with a new preface by the author, 2018.<\/p>\n

“The Truth about London’s Killer Fog,” China Dialogue<\/em>, 1 March 2017.<\/a><\/p>\n

Interview with James Esposito, New Books in History<\/em>, Dec. 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n

Waste <\/em>into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2015).\u00a0<\/a>Shortlisted, 2017 Turku Book Award, Environmental Society for European History and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Salvage and Destruction: The Recycling of Books and Manuscripts in Great Britain during the Second World War,” Contemporary European History<\/em> 22, no. 3 (August 2013): 431-52.<\/a><\/p>\n

Roundtable review of Finn Arne J\u00f8rgensen,\u00a0Making a Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling<\/em>\u00a0(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011),\u00a0H-Environment Roundtable Reviews<\/em>\u00a03, no. 2 (2013).<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Corpse in the Garden: Burial, Health, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century London,” Environmental History<\/em> 16, no. 1 (January 2011): 38\u201368.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Cities, Environments, and European History,” (co-authored with Genevi\u00e8ve Massard-Guilbaud),\u00a0Journal of Urban History<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>33, no. 5 (July 2007): 691-701.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Preventing Pollution: Lessons from the Past,” China Dialogue<\/em>, 12 March 2007.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Green Space and Class in Imperial London,” in\u00a0The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space<\/em>, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg (University of Rochester Press, 2006).<\/a><\/p>\n

“Interpreting the London Fog Disaster of 1952,” in\u00a0Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution<\/em>, ed. E. Melanie Dupuis (New York University Press, 2004).<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels: Gas, Coke, and the Environment in Britain, 1813-1949,”\u00a0Environment and History\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>8 (2002): 381-401.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Smoke of Great Cities: British and American Efforts to Control Air Pollution, 1860-1914,” (co-authored with David Stradling),\u00a0Environmental History<\/em> 4, no. 1 (January 1999): 6-31.<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n

Modern Britain, environment, war, culture, gender, sexuality, and technology.<\/p>\n

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Education<\/h3>\n

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
\nB.A., Carleton College, 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selected Publications (click for links)   “Poisonous Workplaces: What Workers Faced in British Chemical Weapons Factories,” Technology and Culture,\u00a065, no. 4 (2024), 1135\u20131160. “Trading with the Enemy? The Flow of Scrap between Britain and Germany from Pre-war Rearmament to Post-war Reconstruction,”\u00a0Business History 64, no. 2 (2022): 963-83. A Mighty Capital under Threat:The Environmental History of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3jd74-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":124,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/peter-thorsheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}