Death and Survival in Urban Britain : Disease, Pollution and Environment, 1800-1950

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgements Part 1: Disease in the City 1. Country,Town and‘Planet’ in Britain 1800–1950 2. Death and Survival in the City: Approaches to the History of Disease 3. Evaluating the Sanitary Revolution: Typhus and Typhoid in London, 1851–1900 4. The Final Catastrophe: Cholera in London, 1866 5. The Metropolitan and the Municipal: The Politics of Health and Environment, 1860–1920 Part 2: Pollution and the Burdens of Urban-Industrialism 6. Pollution in the City 7. ‘The Heart and Home of Horror’: The Great London Fogs of the Late Nineteenth Century 8. Unending Debate: Town, Country and the Construction of the Rural in England, 1870–2000 9. Environmental Justice, History and the City:The United States and Britain, 1970–2000 10. Place, Disease and Quality of Life in Urban Britain,1800–1950 Notes Bibliography Index