Dirty old London the Victorian fight against filth
"In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2014]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47399107*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The golden dustman
- Inglorious mud
- Night soil
- Removable causes
- Vile bodies
- The great unwashed
- The public convenience
- Wretched houses
- The veil of soot.
