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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Jackson, Lee, 1971-     Subjects     Sanitation -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.     London (England) -- History -- 19th century.     London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jackson, Lee, 1971-       by title:      Dirty old London : t...         MARC Display

Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth / Lee Jackson. by Jackson, Lee, 1971- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015. Subjects Sanitation -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.   London (England) -- History -- 19th century.   London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780300216110 (pbk.) 0300216114 (pbk.) Description:  293 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents:  The golden dustman -- Inglorious mud -- Night soil -- Removable causes -- Vile bodies -- The great unwashed -- The public convenience -- Wretched houses -- The veil of soot. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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