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Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

Evans, Richard J.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral SociologyGerman History

ISBN10: 014303636X
ISBN13: 9780143036364
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 752
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster. -Roy Porter, London Review of Books

Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a free city within Germany that was governed by the English ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the cholera years is, in Richard Evans's hands, tragically revealing of the age's social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompetence; it also offers disquieting parallels with the world's public-health landscape today, including the current coronavirus crisis.

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