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Paris Sewers and Sewermen
Author | : Donald Reid |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : NWU:35556040930984 |
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Reid (history, U. of NC Chapel Hill) emphasizes the human story of sewers--politics, sanitation, labor. The engineering of Parisian sewers occupies some 85 pages (lacking a single map). Good book. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Paris Sewers and Sewermen
Author | : Donald Reid |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674654633 |
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Reid (history, U. of NC Chapel Hill) emphasizes the human story of sewers--politics, sanitation, labor. The engineering of Parisian sewers occupies some 85 pages (lacking a single map). Good book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Water 4 0
Author | : David Sedlak |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780300176490 |
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The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future
A History of Hygiene in Modern France
Author | : Steven Zdatny |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2024-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350428706 |
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This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an end to age-old afflictions and brought comfort where discomfort had been the unavoidable companion of existence; and helped produce a tripling of life expectancy. The book considers how the evolution of hygiene produced a society where people washed often, changed their clothes every day, lived without lice and scabies, and performed their natural functions indoors. It reflects on developments in industrial plumbing, public education, government investment, the invention of new products to keep bodies and homes clean, and a parallel makeover in the expectations, sensibilities, and practices about what is 'proper' and what is disgusting. These developments, the study reveals, were not steady and did not happen everywhere at the same pace. But in the fullness of time, they produced a revolution in the human condition.
Sexuality at the Fin de Si cle
Author | : Peter Maxwell Cryle,Christopher E. Forth |
Publsiher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0874130379 |
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"It has come to be widely accepted that "sexuality" as we know it took shape at the end of the nineteenth century, This is when Krafft-Ebing asserted that "sexual feeling is really the root of all ethics, and no doubt of aestheticism and religion," and Havelock Ellis declared sexuality to be the "central problem of life." Yet however self-evident Ellis's claim about sexuality might seem the act of placing something at the center is the consequence of insistent cultural work that engages with competing views about bodies and indeed about the "life" of society. This volume examines how this work was carried out and what resulted from such efforts."--BOOK JACKET.
The City and the Senses
Author | : Dr Alexander Cowan,Dr Jill Steward |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781409479604 |
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How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation. Spanning pre-industrial and modern cities in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience. Divided into sections corresponding to the five senses: noise, vision, taste, touch and smell, each sections allows for comparisons which act as reminders that the experience of the city was a multi-sensual one, and that these experiences were as much intellectual as physical in their nature.
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs
Author | : David S. Barnes,Professor David S Barnes |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2006-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801883491 |
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Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians and the French public were shaped by political struggles between republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and civilizethe peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances.--Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "American Historical Review"
The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy
Author | : Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469621296 |
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The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow explores this little-known world of bathrooms and sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation, engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene, and public health. Focusing on the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, and Rome, Koloski-Ostrow's work challenges common perceptions of Romans' social customs, beliefs about health, tolerance for filth in their cities, and attitudes toward privacy. In charting the complex history of sanitary customs from the late republic to the early empire, Koloski-Ostrow reveals the origins of waste removal technologies and their implications for urban health, past and present.