NAPLES IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, 1884-1911 by Frank M. Snowden ( 9780521893862 )

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Title:

NAPLES IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, 1884-1911

By:

Frank M. Snowden

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Paperback

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0521893860

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9780521893862

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 March, 2002

Pages:

496

Description:

This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera edipemics of 1884 and 1910-11.

Synopsis:

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.

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6 maps

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Cambridge University Press

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