The British Experience with River Pollution, 1865-1876 by Breeze, Lawrence E.

The British Experience with River Pollution, 1865-1876 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820421629)

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The British Experience with River Pollution, 1865-1876 by Breeze, Lawrence E.

The British Experience with River Pollution, 1865-1876

$69.95
The British Experience with River Pollution, 1865-1876 by Breeze, Lawrence E.

The British Experience with River Pollution, 1865-1876

$69.95
Format: Hardcover
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This book provides a historical account of two Royal Commissions in Victorian Britain that sought solutions to river pollution problems attributed to industrial waste and town sewage. It describes and analyzes the legislative outcome, the Rivers Pollution Act of 1876, which remained the basic law until 1951. An introductory chapter and an epilogue place developments of the 1860's and 1870's into the broader context of British history. The study dispels any notion that environmental issues are largely twentieth-century phenomena. Two themes recur in the general response to the work of the commissions: fear of the economic consequences of adopting anti-pollution measures and a stubborn attachment to local control.

Author: Lawrence E. Breeze
ISBN-10: 0820421626
ISBN-13: 9780820421629
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1993
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
By Lawrence E. Breeze
By Lawrence E. Breeze
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The Author: Lawrence E. Breeze received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Missouri. He has taught at Jacksonville University and at Southeast Missouri State University, where he is Professor Emeritus of History.

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