Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London / Michelle Allen.
- Allen, Michelle Elizabeth.
- Date:
- [2008], ©2008
- Books
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Description
'Cleansing the City' explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.
Publication/Creation
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Physical description
x, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.
Contents
The London sewer: purification and the experience of urban disorder -- "Thames fever": the contest for the river in the metropolitan imagination -- A more expansive reach: the geography of the Thames in Our mutual friend -- No space for the poor: disillusionment with reform in the 1880s -- Intransigence and limited mobility: competing geographies in the Nether world.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJB.431.AA8Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780821417706
- 0821417703
- 9780821417713
- 0821417711