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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sam Alewitz |
| ISBN: | 0824039955 9780824039950 |
| OCLC Number: | 20754493 |
| Description: | 233 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I. Material wealth and environmental poverty -- II. Industry, morality and then the sanitary -- III. Mere business -- IV. The search for solutions -- V. Ambivalence and political procrastination -- VII. Elongated cesspools -- VIII. Streets: poorly paved and poorly cleaned -- IX. Polluted waters and tainted solutions -- X. Adequate solutions and costly delays. |
| Series Title: | Garland studies in historical demography. |
| Responsibility: | Sam Alewitz. |
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