Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years by Evans, Richard J.
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years by Evans, Richard J.

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster."...
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Author: Richard J. Evans
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Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years by Evans, Richard J.

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

$51.98
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years by Evans, Richard J.

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

$51.98
Author: Richard J. Evans
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 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.

Author: Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 752
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.56w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780143036364
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 86
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 152

About the Author
Richard J. Evans was born in London and educated at Oxford University. He has taught at Columbia University and Birkbeck, University of London, and since 2014 has been the Regius Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cambridge. His many publications include an acclaimed three-volume history of the Third Reich and a recent collection of essays, The Third Reich in History and Memory. A Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he is a past winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and was twice a History Honoree at the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. In 2012 he was appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen's birthday honors list, for services to scholarship.
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