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Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Lee Jackson
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Description for Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 374.
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. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details-from ... Read more
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. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details-from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300216110
SKU
V9780300216110
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Ref
99-50
About Lee Jackson
Lee Jackson is a well-known Victorianist and creator of a preeminent website on Victorian London (www.victorianlondon.org).
Reviews for Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
This is a tightly argued, meticulously researched history of sanitation that reads like a novel. -Paula Byrne, The Times Lee Jackson stops to have a good poke around - and consider in fascinating, sometimes gruesome detail, the filth and nuisances of the time . . . Utterly engrossing. -Jo Baker, The New York Times Book Review ... Read more