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  • A Mighty Capital under Threat

    The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000

    Edición de Bill Luckin, Peter Thorsheim ...
    Series series
    Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Inventing Pollution

    Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800

    de Peter Thorsheim, Peter Thorsheim ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain’s supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain’s cities and towns filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. Yet, for much of the nineteenth century, few ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD

  • Waste into Weapons

    Recycling in Britain during the Second World War

    de Peter Thorsheim ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Ghost Map

    The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

    de Steven Johnson ...
    A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life**“By turns a medical thriller, detective story, and paean to city life, Johnson's account of the outbreak and its modern implications is a true page-turner.” —The Washington Post“Thought-provoking.” —Entertainment Weekly**It's the summer of 1854, and London is just ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Making of Modern Britain

    de Andrew Marr ...
    In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Dirty Old London

    The Victorian Fight Against Filth

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Churchill: History in an Hour

    de Andrew Mulholland ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics of personality made him broadly regarded as one of the greatest wartime ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

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  • The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

    de Joan Baxter ...
    For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and found support from governments at all levels. But it has also pulped millions of acres of forests, spewed millions of tonnes of noxious emissions into the air, consumed quadrillions of litres of fresh water and then pumped them out again as toxic effluent into nearby Boat Harbour, and eventually ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Bridging Two Peoples

    Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843–1909

    de Allan Sherwin ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern Ontario reserve and was elected chief and band doctor. As secretary to the Grand Indian Council of Ontario he became a bridge between peoples, conveying the chiefs’ concerns to his political mentor ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Industrial Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Cholera

    The Victorian Plague

    de Amanda J Thomas ...
    "[A] fusion of science, social, and medical history . . . fascinating . . . the understanding of and responses to cholera are covered in detail and with sensitivity" —The Victorian WebDiscover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda J. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

    de Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD