Cholera in post-revolutionary Paris : a cultural history /
"While Paris climbed toward the height of its urban and industrial growth, two cholera outbreaks ravaged the capital, one in 1832, the other in 1849. Infecting one in approximately nineteen inhabitants, the first epidemic claimed over eighteen thousand lives; in the second, one in twenty-eight...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1996.
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| Colección: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
25. |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8441767 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the "Silence of 1849"
- The epidemic and revolutionary traditions of Paris
- Cholera's messengers
- Inventing perceptions of disease and government
- Catholicism and cholera
- Disease and social unrest.