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London: Water and the Making of the Modern City de John Broich

London: Water and the Making of the Modern City: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ

Autor John Broich
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 apr 2013

În lucrarea London, autorul John Broich, istoric specializat în dinamica puterii și evoluția imperiului, propune o analiză riguroasă a modului în care infrastructura urbană a modelat societatea britanică modernă. Bazându-se pe cercetarea arhivelor administrative și politice, Broich demonstrează că alimentarea cu apă a Londrei nu a fost doar o problemă de inginerie sau igienă publică, ci un câmp de bătălie ideologic între viziuni divergente despre guvernare și comunitate.

Descoperim aici o perspectivă distinctă asupra epocii victoriene, unde apa devine un instrument de inginerie socială. Remarcăm modul în care autorul integrează presiunile de mediu și epidemiile recurente în discursul politic al unor figuri precum Bernard Shaw sau Lord Salisbury. Spre deosebire de alte studii tehnice, John Broich pune accent pe „mașinăria socială” și pe modul în care guvernul conservator a reușit să impună o structură administrativă ce a definit relația dintre putere și resurse pentru decenii întregi. Această abordare completează temele explorate de autor în White Supremacy, unde acesta urmărește evoluția structurilor de putere și a contradicțiilor sociale în context imperial.

Ca alternativă la Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick de Christopher Hamlin pentru cursurile de istorie urbană sau politici publice, lucrarea lui Broich aduce avantajul unei focalizări stricte pe metropola londoneză și pe conflictul specific dintre municipalitate și statul central. Suntem de părere că această primă ediție, publicată de University of Pittsburgh Press, oferă o claritate conceptuală necesară pentru înțelegerea genezei serviciilor publice moderne, depășind simpla cronologie a epidemiilor pentru a expune mecanismele politice din spatele robinetului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822944270
ISBN-10: 0822944278
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 5 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cercetătorii în istorie urbană și studenții la științe politice. John Broich oferă o lecție fascinantă despre cum crizele de mediu și sanitare pot fi utilizate pentru a redefini contractul social. Cititorul va înțelege că infrastructura pe care o considerăm astăzi de la sine înțeleasă a fost rezultatul unor lupte politice intense între colectivism și intervenționismul de stat.

Despre autor

John Broich este un istoric recunoscut pentru analizele sale privind evoluția structurilor de putere britanice și impactul acestora asupra modernității. În lucrările sale, precum White Supremacy, el explorează rădăcinile ideologice ale politicilor contemporane, pornind de la fundamentele Imperiului Britanic. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre istoria mediului, istoria urbană și dezvoltarea instituțională, oferind perspective critice asupra modului în care resursele și infrastructura sunt utilizate ca instrumente de control social și politic.

Descriere scurtă

As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed. 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.

Recenzii

“A pleasure to read. Broich demonstrates that the resolution of the problems of supplying water to London—the first world city—hampered as it had been by deeply entrenched interests, brought about a new level of ideological politicization of the water industry in Britain. He shows how the dynamics of ‘progress’ and inertia are not straightforward.”—Raymond Smith, independent environmental historian

“Much more than an account of the watering of a great metropolis, Broich’s book reminds us that cities are infrastructural achievements, that creating infrastructure is complicated and divisive and yet profoundly transformative.”
—Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame

“In this clearly written study . . . the author offers fresh insights into the intricate political maneuverings dealing with London water policy, the tension between Parliament and devolved local authorities, and laissez-faire dogma versus Fabian socialism. . . . A concise, useful examination of a key aspect of London’s modern development.”
—Choice

“This book provides a detailed narrative of the shift from private to public enterprise in the nineteenth century . . . Its long-term contribution will be to add to our knowledge of how the nineteenth century created not only the idea of controlling private enterprise but the concept of public enterprise, notably in the form of grandiose water schemes which survive today and to which we remain much in debt.”
—Environmental Values

Notă biografică

John Broich is assistant professor of the history of modern Britain and its empire at Case Western Reserve University.

Descriere

As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts, and then epidemic followed. 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. In London: Water and the Making of the Modern City, John Broich follows the politically charged and arduous task of bringing a municipal water supply to one of the world’s most complex urban environments.