Cleansing the City
Subtitle: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780821417713
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; Health Care Delivery; Modern - 19th Century; History / Modern / 19th Century; 19th century; England; Hygiene; London; Public health; Urban health
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.