Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 18 July 2002
- ISBN 9780521893862
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 229x152x28 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 maps 0
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Short description:
This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera edipemics of 1884 and 1910-11.
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This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots and religiosity; and it traces therapeutic strategies. Cholera also became a metaphor for discontent with the regime: the 1884 outbreak was a national issue which led to the rebuilding of the city amidst widespread corruption. The book sets Naples in a comparative international framework; the disease is also related to larger historical issues, such as the nature of liberal statecraft, the 'Southern Question', mass emigration, organised crime, urban renewal, and the medical profession.
"Snowden's work contributes significantly to cholera's bipolar historiography....Rigorous scholarship, a clear narrative, and 'user friendly' critical apparatus sustain Snowden's thesis....An outstanding book that historians cannot ignore." Choice
Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Sanitary Anxieties: 1. A city at risk; Part II. The Public Epidemic of 1884: 2. From Provence to the Bay of Naples; 3. Death in Naples; 4. Survival and recovery; Part III. Risanamento and Miasma: 5. Rebuilding medicine and politics; Part IV. The Secret Epidemic of 1910-11: 6. The return of cholera: 1910; 7. Concealment and crisis: 1911; Conclusion: Neapolitan cholera and Italian politics; Bibliography.
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