Cholera Years The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

Name: Cholera Years The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
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ISBN: 9780226726779

ISBN-10: 0226726770

ISBN-13: 9780226726779

Edition: N/A

Authors: Charles E. Rosenberg

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Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new Afterword, Rosenberg discusses changes in historical method and concerns since the original publication of The Cholera Years. "A major work of…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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