Cool : how air conditioning changed everything / Salvatore Basile.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index.

Introduction -- Ice, air, and crowd poison -- The wondrous comfort of ammonia -- For paper, not people -- Coolth: everybody's doing it -- Big ideas. Bold concepts. Bad timing -- From home front to each home -- The unnecessary, unhealthy luxury (that no one would give up) -- Conclusion.