Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment: 1880-1980

by Martin V. Melosi

Book Overview

As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890961190
• ISBN13: 9780890961193
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"