caa a22 4500 388099623 CHVBK 20180307125314.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3116131 doi S0007680500062474 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3116131 Warren Christian CHRISTIAN WARREN is a social historian of the modern United States. This article is based on a chapter in his forthcoming book, Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Posioning, to be published byThe Johns Hopkins University Press in 2000. Toxic Purity: The Progressive Era Origins of America' s Lead Paint Poisoning Epidemic [Elektronische Daten] [Christian Warren] This paper examines a pivotal moment in the history of the built environment in America. At the beginning of the twentieth century, factions within the American paint industry fought in state and federal legislatures over the definition of paint: What was pure paint? Were new paint formulations to be encouraged, or labeled "adulterated”? Was the known toxicity of lead to be a consideration? Despite some opponents' recourse to a rhetoric of toxicity and public health, all sides agreed that the best paints contained a significant quantity of lead, and that government should stay out of setting industry standards. This accord all but assured that Americans would apply tons of lead paint on the walls of their homes. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1999 Business History Review Cambridge University Press 73/4(1999), 705-736 0007-6805 73:4<705 1999 73 BHR https://doi.org/10.2307/3116131 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3116131 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Warren Christian CHRISTIAN WARREN is a social historian of the modern United States. This article is based on a chapter in his forthcoming book, Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Posioning, to be published byThe Johns Hopkins University Press in 2000 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 73/4(1999), 705-736 0007-6805 73:4<705 1999 73 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge