Download or read book History and Description of the Thirlmere Water Scheme written by Sir John James Harwood and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dawn of Green written by Harriet Ritvo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book An Historical Record of Some Recent Enterprises of the Corporation of Manchester and of Its Cooperation in the Completion of the Manchester Ship Canal written by Manchester (England). City Council. Town Hall Committee and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manchester and Thirlmere Water Scheme Statement of the Case of the Thirlmere Defence Association With a Map written by Thirlmere Defence Association and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Record of Some Recent Enterprises of the Corporation of Manchester and of Its Co operation in the Completion of the Manchester Ship Canal written by Administration communale and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Central written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Gas Lighting and Water Supply written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London written by John Broich and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Little Look on Water Supply written by William Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manchester and Thirlmere Water Scheme The Case of the Thirlmere Defence Association with Plan and Views of the Lake written by THIRLMERE. and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ruskin and Environment written by Michael Wheeler and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known today as an art critic and social theorist, John Ruskin (1819-1900) was also an acute observer and recorder of the natural environment, and of the impact of Victorian industrialisation and urbanisation upon it. He argued passionately against railways and tourism, river pollution and acid rain, and as passionately for the care of ancient buildings and improved sanitation in urban slums.
Download or read book The Manchester Municipal Code written by Administration communale and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 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 written by James Mansergh and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Local Government written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Cultures written by L. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies.
Download or read book English Local Government Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
