Author: John Mason Tyler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Official Record of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts
Author: John Mason Tyler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Official Record of the State Board of Health
Author: George Burpee
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338251009X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338251009X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Smell Detectives
Author: Melanie A. Kiechle
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295741945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities—filled with new and stronger stinks—were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and “common sense”—the olfactory experiences of common people—on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295741945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities—filled with new and stronger stinks—were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and “common sense”—the olfactory experiences of common people—on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.
The Horse in the City
Author: Clay McShane
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801892317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional Planning The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801892317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional Planning The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
National Library of Medicine Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
Book Description
Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Recent Accession
Author: University of Minnesota. Bio-medical Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description