Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution.

• Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of atmospheric government and pollution in Britain, available today
• Presents archival material from 150 years of British history that represents an original contribution to our knowledge of the history of science and government
• Develops an innovative combination of Foucauldian history of government with a history of atmospheric science
• Raises crucial questions about the nature of state/science relations and the conditions under which environmental knowledge is produced

Mark Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University; and Senior Research Fellow at the City Institute, York University, Toronto. His published works include Spaces of Sustainability: Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society (2006); and The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State (co-author, 2007).