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the Victorian fight against filth

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An edition of Dirty old London (2014)

Dirty old London

the Victorian fight against filth

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"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.

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
293

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Subjects

Umweltverschmutzung, Sanitation, Verschmutzung, Environmental Pollution, Social conditions, Hygiene, History, 19th Century, MEDICAL / Public Health, History, London (england), history, London (england), social conditions, Great britain, history, 19th century, New York Times reviewed, MEDICAL, Public Health, Renhållning, Historia, Socialhistoria, Social history

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England, London, London (England)

Times

19th century

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Dirty old London: the Victorian fight against filth
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Table of Contents

The golden dustman
Inglorious mud
Night soil
Removable causes
Vile bodies
The great unwashed
The public convenience
Wretched houses
The veil of soot.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-283) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.7009421/09034
Library of Congress
DA683 .J17 2014, DA683.J17 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
293 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
293

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OL26885183M
Internet Archive
dirtyoldlondonvi0000jack
ISBN 10
0300192053
ISBN 13
9780300192056
LCCN
2014014234
OCLC/WorldCat
877369758

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