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The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929

The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929

Hardcover

Technology & Engineering19th Century United States HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1501766988
ISBN13: 9781501766985
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 15 2023
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusing on the persistent problems of filth and the frustration of generations of reformers unable to clean their cities, Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan tell a story of dirty politics and administrative innovation that made rapidly expanding American cities livable.

The solutions that professionals recommended to rid cities of overflowing waste cans, litter-filled privies, and animal carcasses were largely ignored by city governments. When the efforts of sanitarians, engineers, and reformers failed, public officials turned to the habits and tools of corruption as well as to gender and racial hierarchies.

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