218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public spaces, vesting interest in keeping the areas in which they lived and worked clean. Taking an... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: The Character of the Environmental Challenge Chapter 2: York’s and Edinburgh’s Sanitation in National, Demographic, Legal and Governmental Context Chapter 3: Civic-Funded Sanitation Services: Street Cleaning, Waste Disposal and Drainage Chapter 4: Regulating Insanitary Nuisances Conclusion
Biography
Leona J. Skelton is Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the History Department at University of Bristol, UK.
