Epidemics, empire, and environments : cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910 /
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Author / Creator: | Zeheter, Michael, author. |
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Imprint: | Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015] |
Description: | ix, 325 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of the urban environment History of the urban environment. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10506413 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Cholera and the Colonial State in Urban Environments
- Part I. First Encounters
- 1. Strategies of Treatment: Madras, 1818-1833
- 2. Strategies of Control: Quebec City, 1832-1834
- Part II. Integrating Sanitation
- 3. Frequent Visitations: Quebec City, 1840-1854
- 4. The Advent of Sanitarianism: Madras, 1840-1857
- 5. Sanitary Consensus at Last: Madras, 1858-1883
- Part III. Bacteriology and the Promise of Clarity
- 6. Finding the Comma Bacillus: Bacteriology in Madras and Quebec City, 1865-1910
- Conclusion: The Colonial State and the Elusive Consensus Regarding Cholera
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index