London : Water and the Making of the Modern City /
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed. 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 fab...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |