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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Water and the making of the modern British city
- Great expectations : the first efforts to reform London with water
- "Communism in water" : a strategy for harnessing water to reshape late Victorian London society
- From engineering modernization to engineering collectivization
- An alternative vision of the modern city, an alternative government of water.