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Dirty Old London

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Dirty Old London

By Lee Jackson

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About the book

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.Through thematic chapters,...Show more

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ISBN

9780300216110

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

Dirty Old London

Format

Paperback

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