A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London.

And London, as the authors of this volume both assert and demonstrate, is not only a city but I the i city of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume largely accomplishes its stated goals and, in doing so, may be able to defend its claim to be not only I an i environmental history of London but I the i environmental history of London. In this ambitious and wide-ranging edited volume, some of the most knowledgeable scholars in the history of London grapple with the challenge of writing environmental histories of a vast, consequential, and fragmented city. [Extracted from the article]

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