A Mighty Capital Under Threat - The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000

American, Canadian, and British scholars probe the environmental history of London during the modern and contemporary period.

About the author

Bill Luckin (Editor)
Bill Luckin is Professor Emeritus in Urban History at the University of Bolton and associate of the Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Pollution and Control: A Social History of the Thames in the Nineteenth Century and Death and Survival in Urban Britain: Disease, Pollution and Environment, 1800-1950.

Peter Thorsheim (Editor)
Peter Thorsheim is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War, and Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and the Environment in Britain since 1800.

Summary

The environmental history of London during the modern and contemporary period.

Product details

• Authors: LUCKIN THORSHEIM
• Assisted by: Bill Luckin (Editor), Peter Thorsheim (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780822946106
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4610-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 231 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 524 g
• Series: History of the Urban Environment; Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Architecture, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning