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London: Water and the Making of the Modern City (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
John Broich
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Description for London: Water and the Making of the Modern City (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
Hardcover. Series: History of the Urban Environment. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBT; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric.
The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a ... Read more
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric.
The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
History of the Urban Environment
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822944270
SKU
V9780822944270
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About John Broich
John Broich is assistant professor of the history of modern Britain and its empire at Case Western Reserve University.
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