Atmospheric Chemistry: A Critical Voyage Through the History

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1 See V. Damodaran, “Environmental History,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., ed. J.D. Wright (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015), 747–55.

2 E.g. Peter Brimblecombe, a British atmospheric chemist who developed a large field of archival research about atmospheric pollution in the United Kingdom, including his pioneering book, P. Brimblecombe, The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times (Abingdon: Routledge, 1987).

3 For instance, Goswami et al. (2014) define critical history as an “analy[sis of] what exists with reference to what is possible [by] insisting on the necessity of deep historical reflexivity.” M. Goswami, M. Postone, A. Sartori, and W. H. Sewell Jr., “Introducing Critical Historical Studies,” Critical Historical Studies 1 (2014): 1–3.