{"product_id":"sanitation-in-urban-britain-1560-1700-leona-j-skelton-9781848935921","title":"Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700","description":"\u003cp\u003ePopular 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leona J. Skelton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848935927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848935921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Leona J. Skelton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088899911935,"sku":"9781848935921","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb8ef4a7-b775-4cbf-af4e-338e3d6bf378.jpg?v=1769107168","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sanitation-in-urban-britain-1560-1700-leona-j-skelton-9781848935921","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}