Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perceptions and effects of late Victorian air pollution / Peter Brimblecombe -- "The invisible evil": noxious vapor and public health in Manchester during the Age of Industry / Harold L. Platt -- Public perceptions of smoke pollution in Victorian Manchester / Stephen Mosley -- Uplands downwind: acidity and ecological change in the southeast Lancashire moorlands / Matthew Osborn -- The "smoky city" between the wars / Angela Gugliotta -- The merits of the precautionary principle: controlling automobile exhausts in Germany and the United States before 1945 / Frank Uekoetter -- Interpreting the London Fog Disaster of 1952 / Peter Thorsheim -- Localizing smog: transgressions in the therapeutic landscape / Joshua Dunsby -- A fine balance: automobile pollution control strategies in California / Sudhir Chella Rajan -- Who owns the air? Clean Air Act implementation as a negotiation of common property rights / E. Melanie DuPuis -- Air pollution in Spain: A "peripheral" nation transforms / Alexander Farrell -- Clearing the air and breathing freely: the health politics of air pollution and asthma / Phil Brown ... {et al.} -- Invisible people, invisible places: connecting air pollution and pesticide drift in California / Jill Harrison -- Notes form the field: air pollution engineering as cultural experience/ Roger K. Raufer -- The social and political construction of air pollution: air pollution policies for Mexico City, 1979-1996 / Jose Luis Lezama.