<i>The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929</i> <b> <i>The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929</i> </b> Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan (2022). Cornell University Press, 264 pages. $37.45 (hardcover)
Lily Baum Pollans
Abstract
In his touchstone Garbage in the Cities, environmental historian Martin Melosi (2005) described how waste management shifted from an individual to a municipal responsibility over the course of the ...
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