Pénétra
Bonnie Smith, 21 May 1987
Journal of My Life
by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, edited by Daniel Roche, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Columbia, 368 pp., $30, July 1986,0 231 06128 5 Show More
by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, edited by Daniel Roche, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Columbia, 368 pp., $30, July 1986,
Disease and Civilisation: The Cholera in Paris, 1832
by François Delaporte, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
MIT, 250 pp., £22.50, July 1986,0 262 04084 0 Show More
by François Delaporte, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
MIT, 250 pp., £22.50, July 1986,
France: Fin de Siècle
by Eugen Weber.
Harvard, 294 pp., £16.94, October 1986,0 674 31812 9 Show More
by Eugen Weber.
Harvard, 294 pp., £16.94, October 1986,
“... the great disasters of the decade – artisanal uprisings and cholera. This is the major theme of François Delaporte’s Disease and Civilisation: The Cholera in Paris, 1832, which places the disease at the centre of the transformation of Ménétra’s world. The approach of cholera from the East caught the eye of social commentators as well as medical ... ”
