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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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 293 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300192056
0300192053
SUBJECTS
Sanitation -- London -- History -- 19th century.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.