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The conquest of water : the advent of health in the Industrial Age 🔍
Jean-Pierre Goubert; introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie; translated by Andrew Wilson Polity Press ; in association with B. Blackwell, Cambridge, UK, Oxford, UK, England, 1989
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Jean-pierre Goubert ; Introduction By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; Translated By Andrew Wilson. Translation Of: La Conquête De L'eau. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [287]-293).
Alternative title
Conquête de l'eau
Alternative author
Goubert, Jean-Pierre
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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Alternative publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Alternative publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
Cambridge, UK, Oxford, UK, 1989, ©1986
Alternative edition
Illustrated edition, 1989
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-293).
Translation of: La conquête de l'eau.
Alternative description
This study of the social and cultural "conquest" of water in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries describes and analyzes the ways in which water was gradually turned into a manageable resource and employed for the purposes of hygiene and for a variety of other uses in everyday social life.
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