Entrée principale:

Allen, Michelle Elizabeth.

Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.

Description:

x, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
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.

Résumé:

'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.

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Table of contents
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Contributor biographical information
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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ISBN:

9780821417706 (hc ; alk. paper)
0821417703 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780821417713 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0821417711 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Our mutual friend.
Gissing, George, 1857-1903. Nether world.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Our mutual friend.
Gissing, George, 1857-1903 Nether world.
Our mutual friend (Dickens, Charles)
Hygiene England London History 19th century.
Public health England London History 19th century.
Medicine in literature.
Social ecology.
Public Health history
History, 19th Century
Medicine in Literature
Sanitation history
Social Environment
Hygiène Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Santé publique Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 19e siècle.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
Hygiene
Public health
Abfallbeseitigung
Englisch
Kanalisation
London
Roman
Städtehygiene
England London
London (Motiv)

Classification/genre:

History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 265287
Cote: BIB 196730
Statut: Disponible