The Politics of Trash : : How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929 / / Patricia Strach, Kathleen S. Sullivan.

The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using non-governmental and, often, unseemly means. Focusing on the persistent problem of filth and the frustration of generations of reformers unable to clean their cities, Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sul...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.) :; 20 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Garbage Problem
  • Chapter 1 A Conceptual Roadmap: Theory and Methods
  • Chapter 2 Ready to Help: Experts Urge Municipal Garbage Collection
  • Chapter 3 Ready to Profit: Inadequate Garbage Collection by Corrupt Regimes
  • Chapter 4 Picking Up Trash: Adequate Garbage Collection by Corrupt Regimes
  • Chapter 5 Solving the Garbage Can Problem: Race, Gender Hierarchy, and Compliance
  • Chapter 6 Getting and Keeping Garbage Collection: Municipal Reliance on Racial Hierarchy
  • Chapter 7 The Politics of Garbage Collection: Lessons Learned
  • Conclusion: Everyday Politics in Practice
  • Notes
  • Index