Modernity and the politics of waste in Britain

Nature's End: History and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 247-272

  Cooper, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230245099     Document Type: Chapter

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