How Long to Read Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700

How Long Does it Take to Read Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 by Leona J. Skelton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public spaces, vesting interest in keeping the areas in which they lived and worked clean. Taking an extensive tour of over thirty towns and cities across early modern Britain, focusing on Edinburgh and York as in-depth case studies, this book sheds light on the complex relationship between how governors organised street cleaning, managed waste disposal and regulated the cleanliness of the outdoor environment, top-down, and how typical urban inhabitants self-regulated their neighbourhoods, bottom-up. The urban-rural manure trade, sanitation infrastructure, waste-disposal technology, plague epidemics, contemporary understandings of malodours and miasmatic disease transmission and urban agriculture are also analysed. This book will enable undergraduates, postgraduates and established academics to deepen their understanding of daily life and sensory experiences in the early modern British town. This innovative work will appeal to social, cultural and legal historians as well as researchers of history of medicine and public health.

How long is Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700?

Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 by Leona J. Skelton is 200 pages long, and a total of 50,000 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 33 minutes to read Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 aloud.

What Reading Level is Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700?

Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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