Dirty old London: the Victorian fight against filth

"In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson...

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Beteilige Person: Jackson, Lee (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2014
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Zusammenfassung:"In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them." --from inside jacket flap
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:293 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9780300192056
9780300216110