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Goubert, Jean-Pierre. The conquest of water: the advent of health in the Industrial Age. Introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Translated by Andrew Wilson. Princeton University Press, 1989, vi, 300pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth. 9780691085449 ISBN 0691085447.
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