Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London / Michelle Allen.

  • Allen, Michelle Elizabeth.
Date:
[2008], ©2008
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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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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JB.431.AA8
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780821417706
  • 0821417703
  • 9780821417713
  • 0821417711