The Cholera Years : the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

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Author / Creator:	Rosenberg, Charles E.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Description:	1 online resource (277 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Cholera -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Cholera. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347453

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ISBN:	9780226726762 0226726762
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new Afterword, Rosenberg discusses changes in hist.
Other form:	9780226726779

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