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| The age of miasmas : from colonial times to 1880 | |
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| Sanitation practices in pre-Chadwickian America | |
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| Bringing the serpent's tail into the serpent's mouth : Edwin Chadwick and the "sanitary idea" in England | |
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| The "sanitary idea" crosses the Atlantic | |
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| Pure and plentiful : from protosystems to modern waterworks, 1830-1880 | |
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| Subterranean networks : wastewater systems as works in progress, 1830-1880 | |
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| The bacteriological revolution, 1880-1945 On the cusp of the new public health : bacteriology, environmental sanitation, and the quest for permanence, 1880-1920 | |
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| Water supply as a municipal enterprise, 1880-1920 | |
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| Battles at both ends of the pipe : sewage systems and the new health paradigm, 1880-1920 | |
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| The third pillar of sanitary services : the rise of public refuse management, 1880-1920 | |
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| The Great Depression, World War II, and public works, 1920-1945 | |
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| Water supply as a national issue : the federal government, expansion of service, and the threat of pollution, 1920-1945 | |
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| Sewerage, treatment, and the "broadening viewpoint," 1920-1945 | |
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| The "orphan child of sanitary engineering" : refuse collection and disposal, 1920-1945 | |
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| The new ecology, 1945-2000s | |
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| The challenge of suburban sprawl and the "urban crisis" in the age of ecology, 1945-1970 | |
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| A time of unease : the "water crisis" in an effluent society, 1945-1970 | |
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| Beyond their limits : decaying sewers, overflows, and foaming plants, 1945-1970 | |
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| Solid waste as "third pollution," 1945-1970 | |
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| From Earth Day to infrastructure crisis : forces shaping the new sanitary city | |
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| Beyond broken pipes and tired treatment plants : water supply, wastewater, and pollution since 1970 | |
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| Out of state, out of mind : the garbage crisis in America | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliographic essay | |
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| Index | |