A mighty capital under threat : the environmental history of London, 1800-2000 / edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luckin, Bill, editor.

Thorsheim, Peter, editor.

Series:

History of the urban environment.

History of the urban environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--England--London.

Urbanization.

London (England)--Environmental conditions--19th century.

London (England).

London (England)--Environmental conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A Mighty Capital under Threat investigates the environmental history of one of the world's global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom-London. Contributors cover the feeding of London, waste management, movement between the city's numerous districts, and the making and shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Environment and daily life in London, 1800-2000 / Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim

Greater London's rapid growth, 1800-2000 / Jim Clifford

Imagining the metropolitan environment in the modern period / Christopher Hamlin

Death and the environment in London, 1800-2000 / Anne Hardy

London and early environmentalism in Britain, 1770-1870 / Christopher Ferguson

Green space in London : social and environmental perspectives / Peter Thorsheim

Moving east : industrial pollution in London, 1800-1920 / Leslie Tomory

Water and its meanings in London, 1800-1914 / Vanessa Taylor

"A once rural place" : environment and society in Hackney, 1860-1920 / Bill Luckin and Andrea Tanner

Water for the multitudes : London and New York, 1800-2016 / Bill Luckin and Joel A. Tarr.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822987444

0822987449