9780300216110

Dirty Old London

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780300216110

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Overview

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, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

ISBN-13

9780300216110

ISBN-10

0300216114

Weight

0.80 Pounds

Dimensions

7.80 x 5.00 x 1.10 In

List Price

$22.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

304 pages

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published On

2015-11-24



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