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  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part I Vol 2

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tina Young Choi, Christopher S Hamlin ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary international perspective. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part I Vol 1

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tina Young Choi, Christopher S Hamlin ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary international perspective. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part I Vol 3

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tina Young Choi, Christopher S Hamlin ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary international perspective. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    The Victorian Fight Against Filth

    by Lee Jackson ...
    In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to ... Read more

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  • The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster

    by W.H. Crawford ...
    The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals.Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms ... Read more

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  • The Grimy 1800s

    Waste, Sewage, & Sanitation in Nineteenth Century Britain

    by André Gren ...
    Chronicles of the filth, foulness, and public health disasters found by "inspectors of nuisances" in a newly industrialized world.In the nineteenth century, as towns grew, Britain became increasingly grimy. The causes of dirt and pollution were defined legally as "nuisances" and, in 1835, the new local authorities very rapidly appointed an army of "inspectors of nuisances."This book reveals the ... Read more

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  • Josiah Wedgwood

    A New Biography

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: "You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this." — Kirkus ReviewsBorn in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When he started work, the ... Read more

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  • The Soil and Health

    by Albert Howard ...
    This is a newly edited revision of Albert Howard’s important text on organic farming and gardening, and the central role of humus in maintaining soil health and fertility. THE SOIL AND HEALTH is a detailed analysis of the vital role of humus and compost in soil health — and the importance of soil health to the health of crops and the humans who eat them. The author is keenly aware of the dead end ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • A Short History of English Agriculture

    by William Henry Ricketts Curtler ...
    'A husbandman', said Markham, 'is the master of the earth, turning barrenness into fruitfulness, whereby all commonwealths are maintained and upheld. His labour giveth liberty to all vocations, arts, and trades to follow their several functions with peace and industrie. What can we say in this world is profitable where husbandry is wanting, it being the great nerve and sinew which holdeth together ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Visitation of God

    by Austin Bourke ...
    The dramatic failure of the potato crop in mid-19th century Europe caused widespread hunger and distress. In Ireland the impact was probably the greatest, where a million people died and many more emigrated. In this book, Austin Bourke seeks to explain how, from being welcomed originally as a protection against hunger, the potato became the very emblem of famine.The text brings together the author ... Read more

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  • Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain

    by E. Royston pike ...
    Series series Economic History
    First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young people ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • English Peasant Farming

    The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times

    by Joan Thirsk ...
    Series series Economic History
    English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society. Yet we know surprisingly little about peasant life. This volume originally published in 1957, presents the agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD