Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Disease in the City -- 1. Country, Town and 'Planet' in Britain 1800-1950 -- 2. Death and Survival in the City: Approaches to the History of Disease -- 3. Evaluating the Sanitary Revolution: Typhus and Typhoid in London, 1851-1900 -- 4. The Final Catastrophe: Cholera in London, 1866 -- 5. The Metropolitan and the Municipal: The Politics of Health and Environment, 1860-1920 -- Part 2 Pollution and the Burdens of Urban-Industrialism -- 6. Pollution in the City -- 7. 'The Heart and Home of Horror': The Great London Fogs of the Late Nineteenth Century -- 8. Unending Debate: Town, Country and the Construction of the Rural in England, 1870-2000 -- 9. Environmental Justice, History and the City: The United States and Britain, 1970-2000 -- 10. Place, Disease and Quality of Life in Urban Britain, 1800-1950 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Back cover.