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A mighty capital under threat : the environmental history of London, 1800-2000 /
"Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | History of the urban environment
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Environment and daily life in London, 1800-2000 / Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim
- Greater London's rapid growth, 1800-2000 / Jim Clifford
- Imagining the metropolitan environment in the modern period / Christopher Hamlin
- Death and the environment in London, 1800-2000 / Anne Hardy
- London and early environmentalism in Britain, 1770-1870 / Christopher Ferguson
- Green space in London : social and environmental perspectives / Peter Thorsheim
- Moving east : industrial pollution in London, 1800-1920 / Leslie Tomory
- Water and its meanings in London, 1800-1914 / Vanessa Taylor
- "A once rural place" : environment and society in Hackney, 1860-1920 / Bill Luckin and Andrea Tanner
- Water for the multitudes : London and New York, 1800-2016 / Bill Luckin and Joel A. Tarr.