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
Physical Details: xxxvii + 317 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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
Briones, Matthew
Ismail, Shehab
Ersoy, Nermin
Chan-Yeung, Moira M. W.
Strach, Patricia
Sullivan, Kathleen
Journals
Canadian Journal of Health History/Revue canadienne d’histoire de la santé
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Social Studies of Science
Social Science History
Social History of Medicine
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
The University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Univ. Chicago Press
Ohio University Press
Hong Kong University Press
Columbia University
Concepts
Public health
Sanitation
Great Britain, colonies
France, colonies
Colonialism
Urban history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Qajar dynasty, Iran (1794-1925)
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
London (England)
Paris (France)
Hong Kong
Canada
Kampala (Uganda)
Honolulu (Hawaii)
Institutions
Zoological Gardens (London, England)
Parkes Museum of Hygiene
University of Paris V
Paris. Jardin Royal des Plantes
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