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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- English and Scots glossary -- Introduction -- The 'chamber pot in the window': myth or reality? -- Contemporary literature -- Historiographical progress in the field -- The project -- Notes -- 1 The character of the environmental challenge -- Introduction -- Domestic waste, drainage systems and the built infrastructure -- Privies, chamber pots and Sir John Harrington's water closet -- Malodorous trades -- Natural or divine causes? Plague and the meaning of smell |
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Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
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Urban agriculture and the urban-rural manure trade -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 York's and Edinburgh's sanitation in national, demographic, legal and governmental context -- Introduction -- Part 1: York's sanitation in context -- Part 2: Edinburgh's sanitation in context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Civic-funded sanitation services: waste disposal, street cleaning and drainage -- Introduction -- English towns and Scottish burghs -- York -- Edinburgh -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Regulating insanitary nuisances -- Introduction -- English towns -- York -- Edinburgh -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317217893 |
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1317217896 |
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