Urban environmental history seeks to define the complex relationship of a city, its people, and its environments. And London, as the authors of this volume both assert and demonstrate, is not only a city but the city of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this ambitious and wide-ranging edited volume, some of the most knowledgeable scholars in the history of London grapple with the challenge of writing environmental histories of a vast, consequential, and fragmented city. What emerges from the volume is an echo of London itself-a series of distinctive but undeniably intertwined parts that together form a rich, multifaceted whole.
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