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The History of the London Water Industry, 1580-1820
Leslie Tomory
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Description for The History of the London Water Industry, 1580-1820
Hardback. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike. Num Pages: 336 pages, 55, 34 black & white illustrations, 10 maps, 11 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTK; KNBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. .
Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city's houses had water connections-making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new ... Read more
Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city's houses had water connections-making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421422046
SKU
V9781421422046
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99-50
About Leslie Tomory
Leslie Tomory is a research affiliate at McGill University. He is the author of Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820.
Reviews for The History of the London Water Industry, 1580-1820
For me, Tomory's book is relevant to the current water debate: is water a human right that is foundational to other human rights including access to food and sanitation, for example, or is water a commodity like chocolate or coal that should be fully monetized? Examining London's water industry provides insights into how for-profit water companies worked (and might still ... Read more