{"product_id":"death-in-hamburg-society-and-politics-in-the-cholera-years-18301910-9780143036364","title":"Death in Hamburg Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 18301910","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster. - Roy Porter, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster.\"\u003cb\u003e - Roy Porter, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliantly written work of great analytical penetration.\" —\u003cb\u003eGordon A. Craig\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A marvelous book, splendidly written, full of wit and anecdote, exuding scholarship and wisdom.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862440968535,"sku":"9780143036364","price":21.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/death-in-hamburg-society-and-politics-in-the-cholera-years-18301910-9780143036364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}