Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700

ISBN-13: 9780367668563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Leona J. Skelton

Opis

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public spaces, vesting interest in keeping the areas in

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The Character of the Environmental Challenge Chapter 2: York’s and Edinburgh’s Sanitation in National, Demographic, Legal and Governmental Context Chapter 3: Civic-Funded Sanitation Services: Street Cleaning, Waste Disposal and Drainage Chapter 4: Regulating Insanitary Nuisances Conclusion

O autorze

Leona J. Skelton is Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the History Department at University of Bristol, UK.