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Author Ritvo, Harriet, 1946-

Title The dawn of green : Manchester, Thirlmere, and modern environmentalism / Harriet Ritvo
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction; 1 The Unspoiled Lake; 2 The Dynamic City; 3 The Struggle for Possession; 4 The Cup and the Lip; 5 The Harvest of Thirlmere; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index
Summary Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation-and helped launch the environmental movement as we know it. Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred miles south to the burgeoning industrial city and its workforce. This feat of civil engineering-and of natural resource diversio
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Water-supply -- England -- Manchester -- History
Environmentalism -- England, North West -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Environmentalism
Water rights
Water-supply
Miljövård -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1800-talet.
Vattenförsörjning -- historia -- Storbritannien -- Manchester.
SUBJECT Thirlmere, Lake (England) -- History
Thirlmere, Lake (England) -- Water rights -- History
Subject England -- England, North West
England -- Lake Thirlmere
England -- Manchester
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226720845
0226720845
1282463144
9781282463141