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1 online resource |
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Toward a history of natural light -- The darkening city, 1850-1920 -- The dawn of scientific sunlight -- Sun cures -- Popular enthusiasms: eugenists, nudists, builders, modern mothers, and the sun cult -- Climate tourism and its alternative -- Epilogue: sunlight into the twenty-first century |
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedi |
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Includes index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Sunshine -- Environmental aspects
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States
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Climatotherapy.
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Sunshine.
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Sunlight
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Environmental Policy -- history
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City Planning -- history
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Facility Design and Construction -- history
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Heliotherapy -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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sunlight.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Sunshine
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Climatotherapy
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Städer.
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Ekologi.
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Stadsplanering.
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Stadssociologi.
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Klimatoterapi.
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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Förenta staterna.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226262833 |
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0226262839 |
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1280126086 |
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9781280126086 |
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