Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910
by Richard J. Evans
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"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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Interesting description of the life and living in Hamburg during the years 1830 - 1910 and the problems of a growing city especially with diseases like cholera
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Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. He is the author of a trilogy on the Third Reich and, most recently, The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914. He is currently writing a biography of the historian Eric Hobsbawm.
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- Tod in Hamburg: Stadt, Gesellschaft und Politik in den Cholera-Jahren 1830-1910
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- Hamburg, Germany
- Important events
- Disaster: Infectious Disease
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- Nonfiction, History, Sociology, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
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- 304.2 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Factors affecting social behavior Human ecology
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- HN458 .H3 .E95 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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- English, German
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