Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911 / Frank M. Snowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snowden, Frank M. (Frank Martin), 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cholera--Italy--Naples--History.

Cholera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 478 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 1995 book 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 it traces therapeutic strategies. Cholera also became a metaphor for discontent with the regime: the 1884 outbreak was a national issue which led to the rebuilding of the city amidst widespread corruption. The book sets Naples in a comparative international framework; the disease is also related to larger historical issues, such as the nature of liberal statecraft, the 'Southern Question', mass emigration, organised crime, urban renewal, and the medical profession.

Contents:

1. A city at risk

2. From Provence to the Bay of Naples

3. Death in Naples, 1884

4. Survival and recovery

5. Rebuilding: medicine and politics

6. The return of cholera: 1910

7. Concealment and crisis: 1911

Conclusion: Neapolitan cholera and Italian politics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-462) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-13106-6

0-511-58223-4

0-511-00102-9