Urbanising Britain
Subtitle: Essays on Class and Community in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
Contributors: Gerry Kearns (Editor); Charles W. J. Withers (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 26, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780521364997
Subjects: Historical geography; Sociology - Urban; History; Community Development; Urbanization; Science; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; Social classes; Earth Sciences - Geography; Science / Geography; Science : Earth Sciences - Geography; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Urbanization--Great Britain--History--19th ce; Urbanization--Great Britain--History--19th century; 19th century; Community development, Urban; Great Britain
First sentence: The distinctive feature of the public health movement of the nineteenth century was that the remediable causes of epidemic disease were taken to be environmental and that this informed a policy of sanitary engineering.