“A crucially important new chapter in US urban history. (Michael Rawson, author of Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston) By demonstrating that our urban aqueducts are built out of ideas as much as bricks and mortar, Carl Smith ensures that a simple glass of water will never seem so simple again." "A fascinating history of the ideas about nature, health, citizenship, and time that informed the construction of some of America’s earliest and greatest water systems. (Harold Platt, Loyola University Chicago) “ City Water, City Life is a gem of a book, a tightly focused meditation on the antebellum city's ‘infrastructure of ideas.’ By masterfully compressing myriad period sources, Carl Smith makes major contributions to our understanding of American society and culture.”
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