A mighty capital under threat : the environmental history of London, 1800-2000 / edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Environment and daily life in London, 1800-2000 / Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim -- Greater London's rapid growth, 1800-2000 / Jim Clifford -- Imagining the metropolitan environment in the modern period / Christopher Hamlin -- Death and the environment in London, 1800-2000 / Anne Hardy -- London and early environmentalism in Britain, 1770-1870 / Christopher Ferguson -- Green space in London : social and environmental perspectives / Peter Thorsheim -- Moving east : industrial pollution in London, 1800-1920 / Leslie Tomory -- Water and its meanings in London, 1800-1914 / Vanessa Taylor -- "A once rural place" : environment and society in Hackney, 1860-1920 / Bill Luckin and Andrea Tanner -- Water for the multitudes : London and New York, 1800-2016 / Bill Luckin and Joel A. Tarr.

"Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor.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 environmental history of one of the world's global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom-London. Contributors cover the feeding of London, waste management, movement between the city's numerous districts, and the making and shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher

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