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Dirty Old London
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, and graveyards teemed with rotting corpses. The author guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to those who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution, and the forces that opposed them.
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Dirty Old London, Lee Jackson
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- 2014
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- Title
- Dirty Old London
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lee Jackson
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0300192053
- ISBN13
- 9780300192056
- Category
- Social sciences, History
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- In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, and graveyards teemed with rotting corpses. The author guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to those who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution, and the forces that opposed them.