Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London

by Michelle Allen

Book Overview

Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian Londonexplores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove toclean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitaryimprovement, plunged into London's dark and dirty spaces and returned withthe material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificentprojects of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821417711
• ISBN13: 9780821417713
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"