EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Arsenic Century

    Book Details:
  • Author : James C. Whorton
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2010-01-28
  • ISBN : 0191623431
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Arsenic Century written by James C. Whorton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and wallpapers, at work manufacturing these products, or at play swirling about the papered, curtained ballroom in arsenical gowns and gloves, no one was beyond the poison's reach. Drawing on the medical, legal, and popular literature of the time, The Arsenic Century paints a vivid picture of its wide-ranging and insidious presence in Victorian daily life, weaving together the history of its emergence as a nearly inescapable household hazard with the sordid story of its frequent employment as a tool of murder and suicide. And ultimately, as the final chapter suggests, arsenic in Victorian Britain was very much the pilot episode for a series of environmental poisoning dramas that grew ever more common during the twentieth century and still has no end in sight.

Book Price Sources

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Department of Commerce. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Price Sources written by United States. Department of Commerce. Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Price Source  Index of Commercial and Economic Publications Currently Received in the Libraries of the Department of Commerce which Contain Current Market Commodity Prices

Download or read book Price Source Index of Commercial and Economic Publications Currently Received in the Libraries of the Department of Commerce which Contain Current Market Commodity Prices written by United States. Department of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wall Street and the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Wall Street and the Russian Revolution written by Richard Spence and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century." The Russian Revolution, like the war in which it was born, represents the real beginning of the modern world. The book will look not just at the sweep of events, but probe the economic, ideological and personal motivations of the key figures involved, revealing heretofore unknown or misunderstood connections. Was Trotsky, for instance, a political genius, an unprincipled egomaniac, or something of each? Readers should come away with not only a far deeper understanding of what happened in Russia a century ago, but also what happened in America and how that still shapes the relations of the twocountries today.

Book The Oil   Colour Trades Journal

Download or read book The Oil Colour Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer

Download or read book The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paint  Oil and Chemical Review

Download or read book Paint Oil and Chemical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 2400 Business Books

    Book Details:
  • Author : Newark Public Library. Business Branch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book 2400 Business Books written by Newark Public Library. Business Branch and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oil   Colour Trades Journal

Download or read book The Oil Colour Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pine Institute of America Abstracts  Chemical Section

Download or read book Pine Institute of America Abstracts Chemical Section written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advertiser s Weekly

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Advertiser s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Chemical Industry

Download or read book The German Chemical Industry written by Luther Wilson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Imperial Institute

Download or read book Bulletin of the Imperial Institute written by Imperial Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plastics Progress  a Brief Review of the United States Plastics Industry and Trade

Download or read book Plastics Progress a Brief Review of the United States Plastics Industry and Trade written by United States Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Serials Currently Received in the Library of the U S  Department of Agriculture  Exclusive of U S  Government Publications and Publications of the State Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations

Download or read book List of Serials Currently Received in the Library of the U S Department of Agriculture Exclusive of U S Government Publications and Publications of the State Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: