Death and Survival in Urban Britain

Disease, Pollution and Environment, 1800-1950

Bill Luckin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15467-4 (ISBN)

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The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history. Here, the eminent urban historian Bill Luckin re-introduces a body of work which, published together for the first time, along with new material and contextualizing notes, marks the beginning of this important strand of historiography. Luckin charts the spread of cholera, fever and the 'everyday' (but frequently deadly) infections that afflicted the inhabitants of London and its 'new manufacturing districts' between the 1830s and the end of the nineteenth century. A second part - 'Pollution and the Ills of Urban-Industrialism' - concentrates on the water and 'smoke' problems and the ways in which they came to be perceived, defined and finally brought under a degree of control. Death and Survival in Urban Britain explores the layered and interacting narratives within the framework of the urban revolution that transformed British society between 1800 and 1950.

Bill Luckin is Professor of History at the University of Bolton, UK, and the co-editor of the "Social History of Medicine" journal.

Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements

Part 1 : Disease in the City

Part 2: Pollution and the Burdens of Urban-Industrialism

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-15467-9 / 1350154679
ISBN-13	978-1-350-15467-4 / 9781350154674
Zustand	Neuware