The conquest of water
Subtitle: the advent of health in the Industrial Age
By: Jean-Pierre Goubert ; introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; translated by Andrew Wilson.
Publisher: Polity Press; in association with B. Blackwell
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Water -- Purification -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-293).
Translation of: La conquête de l'eau.