London's Rubbish. Two centuries of dirt, dust and disease in the metropolis
Details:
- Author(s) Hounsell, Peter
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 192pp; illus
- Publisher Amberley
- Place Published Stroud
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
'Explores the changes in the management of London's rubbish over the last two centuries' with an emphasis on early recycling of rubbish / dust. Has chapters: 'Rakers, scavengers and laystalls - the origins of the London dustman'; 'The alchemy of dust - realising the value of rubbish in Victorian London'; 'The dustmen of Mayhew's London'; 'Cleanse or perish - cholera, miasma and the sanitary imperative'; 'The municipalisation of refuse'; 'From darkness came light - the rise and fall of the dust destructor'; 'Modernisation and mobilisation, 1889-1919'; 'Down in the dumps - the curse of the suburban waste tips'; 'Austerity - the Second World War and its aftermath'; 'Strikes and privatisation'; 'The triumph of recycling' '