{"product_id":"death-in-hamburg-society-and-politics-in-the-cholera-years-9780143036364","title":"Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster.\" -Roy Porter, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a \"free city\" within Germany that was governed by the \"English\" ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the \"cholera years\" is, in Richard Evans's hands, tragically revealing of the age's social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompetence; it also offers disquieting parallels with the world's public-health landscape today, including the current coronavirus crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143036364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.56w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 152\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Richard J. Evans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44608361070773,"sku":"9780143036364","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_30a76c5d-eaae-448b-b5dc-af5db46f41e6.jpg?v=1725374415","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/death-in-hamburg-society-and-politics-in-the-cholera-years-9780143036364","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}