{"id":7241,"date":"2018-04-02T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2018-04-02T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T20:54:11","slug":"on-campus-event-the-smoke-of-london-energy-and-environment-in-the-early-modern-city-friday-april-6-10-1130-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/events\/on-campus-event-the-smoke-of-london-energy-and-environment-in-the-early-modern-city-friday-april-6-10-1130-am\/","title":{"rendered":"On Campus Event: &#8220;The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City&#8221; Friday, April 6 10-11:30 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City&#8221; with William Cavert<br \/>\nFriday, April 6 from 10-11:30 AM<br \/>\nNixon Lounge, Hawthorne Longfellow Library (3rd Floor)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A behind the scenes look at Bowdoin&#8217;s special collections with William Cavert, assistant professor of history, University of St. Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>By 1600, London was a fossil-fueled city, its high-sulfur coal a basic necessity for the poor and a source of cheap energy for its growing manufacturing sector. In this lecture, drawn from his prize-winning book, historian William Cavert uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Department of History and Environmental Studies Program<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2018\/04\/Smoke-of-London.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7242\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2018\/04\/Smoke-of-London-624x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2018\/04\/Smoke-of-London-624x1024.jpg 624w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2018\/04\/Smoke-of-London-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2018\/04\/Smoke-of-London-768x1260.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2018\/04\/Smoke-of-London.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City&#8221; with William Cavert Friday, April 6 from 10-11:30 AM Nixon Lounge, Hawthorne Longfellow Library (3rd Floor) A behind the scenes look at Bowdoin&#8217;s special collections with William Cavert, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/events\/on-campus-event-the-smoke-of-london-energy-and-environment-in-the-early-modern-city-friday-april-6-10-1130-am\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-on-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}