Paris sewers and sewermen : realities and representations

Paris sewers and sewermen : realities and representations / Donald Reid.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reid, Donald, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1991
Subjects:	Sewerage. Sewerage > History. Sewerage > France > Paris.

Table of Contents:

The sewers
The old regime
Sewers and social order
Engineering and empire
The visit
The irrigation fields
Montfaucon liquidated
Representations of labor
Cesspool cleaners and sewermen
Disorder above and order below
The world turned upside down
The sewermen and their union
In the public service
The body of sewermen
Sewermen today
Conclusion.