9780143036364-014303636X-Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

ISBN-13: 9780143036364
ISBN-10: 014303636X
Edition: Trade Paperback Edit
Author: Richard J. Evans
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 752 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780143036364
ISBN-10: 014303636X
Edition: Trade Paperback Edit
Author: Richard J. Evans
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 752 pages

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Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years (ISBN-13: 9780143036364 and ISBN-10: 014303636X), written by authors Richard J. Evans, was published by Penguin Books in 2005. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Germany (European History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Germany books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.69.

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Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Germany that was governed by the “English” ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the “cholera years” is, in Richard Evans’s hands, tragically revealing of the age’s social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompetence; it also offers disquieting parallels with the world’s public-health landscape today.

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