Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910Clarendon Press, 1987 - 676 Seiten In 1892 Hamburg was hit by one of the greatest urban disasters of the 19th century - in a cholera epidemic of little more than six weeks, nearly 10,000 people died and many more suffered the appalling symptoms of this terrible and degrading disease. No other city in western Europe was seriously affected. Hamburg became the focus of hostile attention from outraged and horrified international opinion. This book uses the mass of detailed source material generated by the epidemic to give a graphic portrayal of a great European city in the grip of a major social and political crisis. It also asks why Hamburg was alone in suffering an epidemic of these proportions in 1892. The search for an answer leads back into the 19th century, into the territory of environmental pollution, social inequality, municipal administration, and the development of medical science in central Europe. Richard Evans has also been awarded the William H. Welch medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Students of nineteenth-century German and European politics and society, of medicine, sociology, and environmental studies should be interested by this book. |
Inhalt
THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT | 108 |
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH | 180 |
THE GREAT EPIDEMIC | 285 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
28 August age-group Alley Quarters Alster Altona Altstadt areas Assembly August Ausschlag bacillus Barmbeck Bericht Berlin bourgeois Bremen Burgomaster caused cholera epidemic cholera morbidity cholera mortality Citizens city's death rate disease disinfection district doctors Eckardt Eilbeck Eimsbüttel Elbe elected epidemic Eppendorf Fasc figures German German Empire Geschichte Gustav Hertz Hachmann Hamburger Echo Hamburger Fremdenblatt Hamburgischer Correspondent harbour Harvestehude Hohenfelde hospital houses Hygiene Ibid income infection inhabitants Johann Johann Georg Mönckeberg Koch Koch's Kraus labour major Marks Max von Pettenkofer medical profession merchants Mönckeberg morbidity and mortality morbidity rate mortality rates Neustadt Nord nineteenth century official outbreak Pettenkofer Pettenkofer's police political population property-owners Prussian quarantine reform Reichstag reported Robert Koch Rotherbaum Rumpf sanitary Senate Sept September servants sewage Social Democrats StA Hbg statistics streets trade typhoid Uhlenhorst Versmann victims water-supply Winterhude workers working-class
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