The Cholera Years

A history of the nineteenth-century epidemic and a “skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease” ( The New York Times ).   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. In this book Charles Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly develop