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The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
The Great Stink of Paris and the NineteenthCentury Struggle against Filth and Germs
Author: David S. Barnes
Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors emanated from the sewers of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic.Fifteen years later -- when the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stink -- the landscape of health and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians held their nose...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801883491
ISBN-10: 0801883490
Publication Date: 5/17/2006
Pages: 328
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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