Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770

by ECockayne (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.27

  Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences - traffic jams, noisy neighbours, pollution, food scares - but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely. Explaining these, this book shows us a world where residents were scarred by small pox, refuse rotted in the streets, pigs and dogs roamed free and more.