[Download free pdf] Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911
• Frank M. Snowden •
| #2116351 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 2002-07-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x1.10 x5.98l,1.61 | File Name: 0521893860 | 496 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A crisis for Italy's new republic|By Pete|I am always on the lookout for books about Naples. This is by far the best book I have read on this city. There are many books on prewar Italy, both WWI and WWII, but they are largely in Italian. For those who are limited to English, I cannot see how such a reader would be disappointed by this book. I find Thomas Snowden to be an e||"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
This 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. This book is the first extended study of cholera in modern Italy; it sets Naples in a comparative international framework and relates the disease to larger historical issues, such as the nature...
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