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: October 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780521046091
Subjects: Science / Geography; Urbanization--Great Britain--History--19th century
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.