The Conquest of Water: The Advent of Health in the Industrial Age. Introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie by Jean-Pierre Goubert
The Conquest of Water: The Advent of Health in the Industrial Age. Introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
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Jean-Pierre Goubert
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The Conquest of Water: The Advent of Health in the Industrial Age. Introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Jean-Pierre Goubert with Andrew Wilson (Translator)

306 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

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This book is the first major study of the social and cultural conquest of water during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jean-Pierre Goubert discloses the changing meanings of everyday reality as he explores the transition from water-scarce ...

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