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Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Dirty Old London The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Author: Lee Jackson
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 guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300192056
ISBN-10: 0300192053
Publication Date: 11/25/2014
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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