UID:
almafu_9961152577802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (244 p.)
ISBN:
1-136-84705-7
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1-136-84706-5
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1-283-04161-8
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9786613041616
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0-203-83397-X
Serie:
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies
Inhalt:
This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city of Saratov on the Volga, in particular contrasting the outbreak of 1892 - widely regarded at the time as a national fiasco and a transformative episode for the Russian Empire - with the cholera epidemics of 1904-1910 when - despite completely new scientific discoveries and administrative arrangements - Russia suffere
Anmerkung:
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
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Cholera in Russia -- Empire of germs -- Cholera and medicine -- Saratov on the eve of the epidemic -- City on the Volga -- Sites of infection -- Migrants, peasants, sailors -- Local authorities and public health -- Cholera in Saratov, 1892 -- Government and epidemic : the arrival -- City and epidemic : the response -- People and epidemic : the riots -- Sanitised politics and the politics of medicine -- Miasma and urban renewal -- Cholera and Saratov's doctors -- The revival of cholera : 1904-1914 -- The government and cholera, 1904-1914 -- Local authority in crisis : cholera in Saratov, 1904-1914 -- Conclusion: Saratov, cholera, and the Empire.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-138-96777-7
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-54794-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203833971
