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Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 (Paperback)
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Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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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 which they lived and worked clean.
Taking an extensive tour of over thirty towns and cities across
early modern Britain, focusing on Edinburgh and York as in-depth
case studies, this book sheds light on the complex relationship
between how governors organised street cleaning, managed waste
disposal and regulated the cleanliness of the outdoor environment,
top-down, and how typical urban inhabitants self-regulated their
neighbourhoods, bottom-up. The urban-rural manure trade, sanitation
infrastructure, waste-disposal technology, plague epidemics,
contemporary understandings of malodours and miasmatic disease
transmission and urban agriculture are also analysed. This book
will enable undergraduates, postgraduates and established academics
to deepen their understanding of daily life and sensory experiences
in the early modern British town. This innovative work will appeal
to social, cultural and legal historians as well as researchers of
history of medicine and public health.
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