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A Most Damnable Invention; Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World
by Stephen R. BownISBN13:
9780312329136
ISBN10:
031232913X
Format:
Trade Book
Pub. Date:
10/1/2005
Publisher(s):
Thomas Dunne Books
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Summary
Humanity's Desire to Harness the destructive capacity of fire is a saga that extends back to the dawn of civilization. The true age of explosives, when they radically and irrevocably changed the world, however, began in the 1860s with the remarkable intuition of a sallow Swedish chemist named Alfred Nobel.
Author Biography
Stephen R. Bown was born in Ottawa, Canada, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. He has a special interest in the history of science and exploration. His previous books are The Naturalists: Scientific Travelers in the Golden Age of National History and Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail. He lives in the Canadian Rockies with his wife and two young children.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
| Time Line | ix | ||||
| Prologue: An Epic Quest | 1 | (6) | |||
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7 | (18) | |||
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25 | (26) | |||
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51 | (20) | |||
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71 | (26) | |||
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97 | (24) | |||
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121 | (22) | |||
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143 | (22) | |||
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165 | (20) | |||
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185 | (22) | |||
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207 | (26) | |||
| Epilogue: War and the Green Revolution | 233 | (8) | |||
| A Note on Sources and Further Reading | 241 | (10) | |||
| Bibliography | 251 | (8) | |||
| Index | 259 |
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