Hubbub by Emily Cockayne
Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences - traffic jams, noisy neighbours, pollution, food scares - but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely. Explaining these, this book shows us a world where residents were scarred by small pox, refuse rotted in the streets, pigs and dogs roamed free and more.
". . . Cockayne's prose is clear, free of jargon, and interspersed with rich quotations drawn from a wide array of primary sources. . . . An excellent study of English urban life in all its filth and stench."—A. Roger Ekirch, American Historical Review -- A. Roger Ekirch * American Historical Review *
"Relatively little work of this kind exists for earlier periods. . . . [A] remarkable book. . . . Hubbub is a work of impressive erudition and insight. it deserves to be widely read by everyone with an interest in urban, environmental, or early modern British history."—Peter Thorsheim, The Historian -- Peter Thorsheim * The Historian *
"Relatively little work of this kind exists for earlier periods. . . . [A] remarkable book. . . . Hubbub is a work of impressive erudition and insight. it deserves to be widely read by everyone with an interest in urban, environmental, or early modern British history."—Peter Thorsheim, The Historian -- Peter Thorsheim * The Historian *
Emily Cockayne is senior lecturer, University of East Anglia (UEA), UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300112146 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300112149 |
| Titel | Hubbub |
| Autor | Emily Cockayne |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Yale University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007-03-20 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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