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Author | : Sir John James Harwood |
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Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Water-supply |
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Author | : Harriet Ritvo |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2009-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226720845 |
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Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation—and helped launch the environmental movement as we know it. Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred miles south to the burgeoning industrial city and its workforce. This feat of civil engineering—and of natural resource diversion—inspired one of the first environmental struggles of modern times. The Dawn of Green re-creates the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between conservationists who wished to preserve the lake and developers eager to supply the needs of a growing urban population. Bringing to vivid life the colorful and strong-minded characters who populated both sides of the debate, noted historian Harriet Ritvo revisits notions of the natural promulgated by romantic poets, recreationists, resource managers, and industrial developers to establish Thirlmere as the template for subsequent—and continuing—environmental struggles.
Author | : Manchester (England). City Council. Town Hall Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Manchester (England) |
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Download An Historical Record of Some Recent Enterprises of the Corporation of Manchester and of Its Cooperation in the Completion of the Manchester Ship Canal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : Administration communale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Thirlmere Defence Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Thirlmere (Cumberland) |
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Download Manchester and Thirlmere Water Scheme: Statement of the Case of the Thirlmere Defence Association. [With a Map.] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Broich |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822978660 |
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As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out—in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.
Author | : James Mansergh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Water-supply |
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Download The Thirlmere Water Scheme, of the Manchester Corporation, with a Few Remarks on the Longdendale Works, and Water-supply Generally. Lecture Delivered at Queenwood College, Hants. ... April 10th, 1878 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sir J. J. Harwood |
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Release | : 1893 |
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Download Hist. & Des. of the Thirlmere Water Scheme Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Garnett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : London (England) |
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