Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 478 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511582233
Content:
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
Content:
1. A city at risk -- 2. From Provence to the Bay of Naples -- 3. Death in Naples, 1884 -- 4. Survival and recovery -- 5. Rebuilding: medicine and politics -- 6. The return of cholera: 1910 -- 7. Concealment and crisis: 1911 -- Conclusion: Neapolitan cholera and Italian politics
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521483100
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521893862
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521483100
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511582233
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