The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present (History of the Urban Environment)

by Martin V . Melosi (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $68.80

  Assembles a comprehensive researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America. This title examines the evolution of water supply, sewage systems, and solid waste disposal during three distinct eras: The Age of Miasmas (pre-1880); The Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); and The New Ecology (1945 onwards).