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Book SynopsisCholera terrified and fascinated 19th-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. This text explores the dynamics of class relations through an investigation of the responses to two cholera epidemics in Paris.
Trade Review"This thought-provoking book uses the responses of the Parisian bourgeoisie to the 1832 and 1849 cholera epidemics to measure their evolving mentality during the reign of Louis Philippe, a regime ushered in by one revolution and ended by another. Historians have an unspoken fallacy: mentalities change among the peasantry and the nobility, but the bourgeois outlook on life remains constant. Catherine Kudlick deftly explodes this notion by contrasting the noisy and polemical response of the bourgeoisie—physicians, administrators, and others—to the 1832 cholera with their much milder response to the 1849 epidemic." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
"With clarity, style, and daring, Catherine J. Kudlick analyzes how the Parisian bourgeoisie responded to two cholera epidemics." * History: Reviews of New Books *
