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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 18181910 (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
Michael Zeheter
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Hardcover. Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge. Its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role. In this book, Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. Series: History of the Urban Environment. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; MBNS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms of the disease, and its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role in the sites where outbreaks occurred. In this book, Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two markedly different British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. The colonial state in Quebec aimed to emulate British precedent and develop similar institutions that allowed authorities to prevent cholera ... Read more
Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms of the disease, and its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role in the sites where outbreaks occurred. In this book, Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two markedly different British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. The colonial state in Quebec aimed to emulate British precedent and develop similar institutions that allowed authorities to prevent cholera ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
History of the Urban Environment
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822944461
SKU
V9780822944461
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Ref
99-19
About Michael Zeheter
Michael Zeheter is a research associate and lecturer in the department of history at the University of Trier.
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