Book ID: CBB000830265

Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life (2005)

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Cohen, William A. (Editor)
Johnson, Ryan (Editor)


University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 2005
Language: English


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: xxxvii + 317 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

Description “Focuses on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” (from the publisher) Contributors: David S. Barnes, Neil Blackadder, Joseph Bristow, Joseph W. Childers, Eileen Cleere, Natalka Freeland, Pamela K. Gilbert, Christopher Hamlin, William Kupinse, Benjamin Lazier, David L. Pike, and David Trotter.


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Review Jenner, Mark S. R. (2007) Review of "Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 876). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sullivan, Kathleen
Strach, Patricia
Allen, Michelle Elizabeth
Chiffoleau, Sylvia
Chu, Cecilia
Elshakry, Marwa S.
Journals
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
American Historical Review
British Journal for the History of Science
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Economic History Review
Environment and History
Publishers
Columbia University
Brill
Cornell University Press
Hong Kong University Press
Ohio University Press
Univ. Chicago Press
Concepts
Sanitation
Public health
Great Britain, colonies
Imperialism
Waste disposal
France, colonies
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
16th century
17th century
18th century
21st century
Places
London (England)
Paris (France)
Canada
Germany
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Hong Kong
Institutions
University of Paris V
Parkes Museum of Hygiene
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