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Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform: Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain (International Library of Historical Studies)
Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform Cholera the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain - International Library of Historical Studies Author:David Mclean David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government to combat cholera in nineteenth-century Britain. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean's account exposes the struggles between local and national governments as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between policies of laissez-... more »faire and state intervention.« less