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The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present
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Artikel-Nr:
9780822959830
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2008
Seiten:
400
Autor:
Martin V. Melosi
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
234x160x22 mm
Serie:
Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, and Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment.
Assembles a comprehensive researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America. This title examines the evolution of water supply, sewage systems, and solid waste disposal during three distinct eras: The Age of Miasmas (pre-1880); The Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); and The New Ecology (1945 onwards).