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Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884–1911

Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884–1911

Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884–1911

Author:
Frank M. Snowden, Yale University, Connecticut
Published:
July 2002
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Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521893862

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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.

    • The first major study of cholera in modern Italy, in the classic tradition of Richard Evans' celebrated study Death in Hamburg (Oxford University Press)
    • A unique account of the rebuilding of a major city (Italy's largest) under the influence of a cholera epidemic
    • The only study of an epidemic concealed by the state for political advantage

    Product details

    July 2002
    Paperback
    9780521893862
    496 pages
    229 × 152 × 28 mm
    0.72kg
    6 maps
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Part I. Sanitary Anxieties:
    • 1. A city at risk
    • Part II. The Public Epidemic of 1884:
    • 2. From Provence to the Bay of Naples
    • 3. Death in Naples
    • 4. Survival and recovery
    • Part III. Risanamento and Miasma:
    • 5. Rebuilding medicine and politics
    • Part IV. The Secret Epidemic of 1910–11:
    • 6. The return of cholera:
    • 1910
    • 7. Concealment and crisis:
    • 1911
    • Conclusion: Neapolitan cholera and Italian politics
    • Bibliography.
      Author
    • Frank M. Snowden , Yale University, Connecticut