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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kudlick, Catherine Jean
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1996.
Series:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 25.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8441767