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Richard J. Evans

Death in Hamburg

Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

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A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster. - Roy Porter, London Review of BooksWhy 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, tragi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-593-29795-7
  • EAN: 9780593297957
  • Produktnummer: 34616097
  • Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 752 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 30'104 KB

Über den Autor


Richard J. Evans was born in London and educated at Oxford University. He has taught at Columbia University and Birkbeck, University of London, and since 2014 has been the Regius Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cambridge. His many publications include an acclaimed three-volume history of the Third Reich and a recent collection of essays, The Third Reich in History and Memory. A Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he is a past winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and was twice a History Honoree at the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. In 2012 he was appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen's birthday honors list, for services to scholarship.

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