Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years Paperback - 2005
by Evans, Richard J
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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.
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- Title Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years
- Author Evans, Richard J
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Trade Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 752
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2005-10-25
- Bookseller's Inventory # 240424031
- ISBN 9780143036364 / 014303636X
- Weight 1.88 lbs (0.85 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (21.44 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Hamburg (Germany) - Social conditions, Cholera - Germany - Hamburg - History - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005045442
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.270
Summary
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.
