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Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911 (Paperback, New Ed)
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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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