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Hardcover London: Water and the Making of the Modern City Book

ISBN: 0822944278

ISBN13: 9780822944270

London: Water and the Making of the Modern City

(Part of the History of the Urban Environment Series)

As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea...

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