West Ham and the River Lea - A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914

Jim Clifford is an associate professor of environmental history in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. He has been a fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society and a postdoctoral fellow with the Trading Consequences project funded by Digging Into Data grant. He has a number of publications on advanced digital history methods and is a founding editor of ActiveHistory.ca, which received the 2015 Canadian Historical Association Public History Prize.

Summary

This original account of industrial London’s expansion into West Ham’s suburban marshlands highlights how pollution, poverty, and water shortages fuelled social democracy in Greater London.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Clifford
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780774834247
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-3424-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 227 mm x 155 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 372 g
• Illustrations: 21 maps, 15 b&w photos, 7 graphs
• Series: Nature | History | Society; Nature | History | Society; Nature History Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology