Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 - Hardcover

Evans, Richard J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198228643 ISBN 13: 9780198228646

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1987

Synopsis

In 1892 Hamburg was hit by one of the greatest urban disasters of the 19th century - in a cholera epidemic of little more than six weeks, nearly 10,000 people died and many more suffered the appalling symptoms of this terrible and degrading disease. No other city in western Europe was seriously affected. Hamburg became the focus of hostile attention from outraged and horrified international opinion. This book uses the mass of detailed source material generated by the epidemic to give a graphic portrayal of a great European city in the grip of a major social and political crisis. It also asks why Hamburg was alone in suffering an epidemic of these proportions in 1892. The search for an answer leads back into the 19th century, into the territory of environmental pollution, social inequality, municipal administration, and the development of medical science in central Europe. Richard Evans has also been awarded the William H. Welch medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Students of nineteenth-century German and European politics and society, of medicine, sociology, and environmental studies should be interested by this book.

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Review:

"A brilliantly written work of great analytical penetration." --Gordon A. Craig, The New York Review of Books"A marvelous book, splendidly written, full of wit and anecdote, exuding scholarship and wisdom." --New Scientist

About the Author:

Richard J Evans is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. His previous books include In Defence of History, Telling Lies about Hitler, The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power. He lives outside Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0198228643
• ISBN 13: 9780198228646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 702