Peter Thorsheim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Thorsheim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorsheim |
| SIGNATURE | THORSHEIM P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8375-4830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Poisonous Workplaces: What Workers Faced in British Chemical Weapons Factories
Soldiers were not the only victims of chemical warfare in the twentieth century; the workers who produced these weapons also risked injury and death. Focusing on British chemical weapons factories during both world wars, this article advances our understanding of the human costs not only of war but also of the preparation for war. Technologies such as physical barriers, ventilation systems, protective equipment, and detection systems mitigated so…
Trading with the enemy? The flow of scrap between Britain and Germany from pre-war rearmament to post-war reconstruction
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 considerable quantities of scrap metal to Nazi Germany, a trade which subsequently proved embarrassing and which officialdom sought to obscure. Following the Second World War, Britain obtained large amounts of iron and steel from Western Germany, much of wh…
Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective." Cultural and Social History, 15(2), pp. 294–295
Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45
Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colon…
Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War
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 munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the morale…
Salvage and Destruction: The Recycling of Books and Manuscripts in Great Britain during the Second World War
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. Conscious of systematic recycling in Nazi Germany and its own dependence on imports, the British government established a salvage department only weeks after the outbreak of war. Beginning in 1940, …
The Corpse in the Garden: Burial, Health, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century London
Between 1875 and 1900 advocates of green space in London converted nearly a hundred graveyards into public gardens or playgrounds. This article examines why and how this transformation in urban land use occurred. Incorporating changes in ideas about the body, disease, environment, and religion, it argues that a radically new understanding of the corpse and of burial emerged in Britain during the late nineteenth century. Instead of regarding the d…
Cities, Environments, and European History
This essay introduces a special issue that explores the history of cities in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe from an environmental perspective. After examining the origins and aims of urban environmental history, it traces the relationship between this approach and kindred fields of study. The authors argue that although North American historiography has played an important role in the development of European urban environmental history,…
The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels: Gas, Coke and the Environment in Britain, 1813-1949
The contemporary world faces a toxic legacy: environmental contamination caused by past industrial activities. In Britain, a large proportion of the soil and groundwater pollution that occurred during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century came from gasworks and coke plants. Paradoxically, many people long viewed them as the answer to the country's pollution problems. Smoke-abatement activists and industry officials argued that ga…
The Smoke of Great Cities: British and American Efforts to Control Air Pollution, 1860–1914
The Smoke of Great Cities: British and American Efforts to Control Air Pollution, 1860–1914
Salvage and Destruction: The Recycling of Books and Manuscripts in Great Britain during the Second World War
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. Conscious of systematic recycling in Nazi Germany and its own dependence on imports, the British government established a salvage department only weeks after the outbreak of war. Beginning in 1940, …
The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels: Gas, Coke and the Environment in Britain, 1813-1949
The contemporary world faces a toxic legacy: environmental contamination caused by past industrial activities. In Britain, a large proportion of the soil and groundwater pollution that occurred during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century came from gasworks and coke plants. Paradoxically, many people long viewed them as the answer to the country's pollution problems. Smoke-abatement activists and industry officials argued that ga…
Trading with the enemy? The flow of scrap between Britain and Germany from pre-war rearmament to post-war reconstruction
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 considerable quantities of scrap metal to Nazi Germany, a trade which subsequently proved embarrassing and which officialdom sought to obscure. Following the Second World War, Britain obtained large amounts of iron and steel from Western Germany, much of wh…
The Corpse in the Garden: Burial, Health, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century London
Between 1875 and 1900 advocates of green space in London converted nearly a hundred graveyards into public gardens or playgrounds. This article examines why and how this transformation in urban land use occurred. Incorporating changes in ideas about the body, disease, environment, and religion, it argues that a radically new understanding of the corpse and of burial emerged in Britain during the late nineteenth century. Instead of regarding the d…
The Smoke of Great Cities: British and American Efforts to Control Air Pollution, 1860–1914
The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels: Gas, Coke and the Environment in Britain, 1813-1949
The contemporary world faces a toxic legacy: environmental contamination caused by past industrial activities. In Britain, a large proportion of the soil and groundwater pollution that occurred during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century came from gasworks and coke plants. Paradoxically, many people long viewed them as the answer to the country's pollution problems. Smoke-abatement activists and industry officials argued that ga…
Cities, Environments, and European History
This essay introduces a special issue that explores the history of cities in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe from an environmental perspective. After examining the origins and aims of urban environmental history, it traces the relationship between this approach and kindred fields of study. The authors argue that although North American historiography has played an important role in the development of European urban environmental history,…
The Corpse in the Garden: Burial, Health, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century London
Between 1875 and 1900 advocates of green space in London converted nearly a hundred graveyards into public gardens or playgrounds. This article examines why and how this transformation in urban land use occurred. Incorporating changes in ideas about the body, disease, environment, and religion, it argues that a radically new understanding of the corpse and of burial emerged in Britain during the late nineteenth century. Instead of regarding the d…
Salvage and Destruction: The Recycling of Books and Manuscripts in Great Britain during the Second World War
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. Conscious of systematic recycling in Nazi Germany and its own dependence on imports, the British government established a salvage department only weeks after the outbreak of war. Beginning in 1940, …
Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War
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 munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the morale…
Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45
Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colon…
Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective." Cultural and Social History, 15(2), pp. 294–295
Trading with the enemy? The flow of scrap between Britain and Germany from pre-war rearmament to post-war reconstruction
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 considerable quantities of scrap metal to Nazi Germany, a trade which subsequently proved embarrassing and which officialdom sought to obscure. Following the Second World War, Britain obtained large amounts of iron and steel from Western Germany, much of wh…
Poisonous Workplaces: What Workers Faced in British Chemical Weapons Factories
Soldiers were not the only victims of chemical warfare in the twentieth century; the workers who produced these weapons also risked injury and death. Focusing on British chemical weapons factories during both world wars, this article advances our understanding of the human costs not only of war but also of the preparation for war. Technologies such as physical barriers, ventilation systems, protective equipment, and detection systems mitigated so…
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