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A Mighty Capital under ThreatThe Environmental History of London, 1800-2000
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Bill Luckin, Peter Thorsheim

Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere.…

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