Naples in the Time of Cholera 1884-1911 by Frank M. Snowden

Naples in the Time of Cholera 1884-1911

Frank M. Snowden

496 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This 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 ...

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