A Mighty Capital Under Threat: The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000

Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A Mighty Capital under Threat investigates the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946106
• ISBN13: 9780822946106
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"