Book ID: CBB435552265

The politics of water in post-war Britain (2017)

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Glen O'Hara (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 313
Language: English

This is the first book to cover the British people's late twentieth century engagement with water in all its domestic, national and international forms, and from bathing and household chores to controversies about maritime pollution. The British Isles, a relatively wet and rainy archipelago, cannot in any way be said to be short of liquid resources. Even so, it was the site of highly contentious and revealing political controversies over the meaning and use of water after the Second World War. A series of such issues divided political parties, pressure groups, government and voters, and form the subject matter of this book: problems as diverse as flood defence to river and beach cleanliness, from the teaching of swimming to the installation of hot and cold running water in the home, from international controls over maritime pollution, and from the different housework duties of men and women to the British state's proposals to fluoridise the drinking water supply.

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Authors & Contributors
Stroshane, Tim
Rodrigues, Ana Duarte
Franco Pozzati
Francesco Baruffi
Ragonese, Peppino
Giorgio Zennaro
Concepts
Environmental history
Natural resource management
Science and politics
Water resource management
Water
Water supply
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Medieval
18th century
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Places
Italy
Germany
Sicily
United States
Spain
Great Britain
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