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Home > History and Archaeology > History > History: specific events and topics > Social and cultural history > The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Mode
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Mode

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Mode


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This work is a thrilling account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London. "The Ghost Map" takes place in the summer of 1854. A devastating cholera outbreak seizes London just as it is emerging as a modern city: more than 2 million people packed into a 10-mile circumference, a hub of travel and commerce, teeming with people from all over the world, continually pushing the limits of infrastructure that's outdated as soon as it's updated. Dr John Snow - whose ideas about contagion had been dismissed by the scientific community - is spurred to intense action when the people in his neighbourhood begin dying. With enthralling suspense, Johnson chronicles Snow's day-by-day efforts, as he risks his own life to prove how the epidemic is being spread. This is an endlessly fascinating and compelling account of the summer of 1854, from the microbial level to the macro-urban-theory level, including, most importantly, the human level.

About the Author :
Steven Johnson is the author of the national bestsellers Everything Bad is Good for You and Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, as well as Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software and Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate.

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"A cultural critic with a poet's soul... Like Malcolm Gladwell, he [shows] that a seemingly esoteric idea has great power to shape the way we live." - The Village Voice "Most thoughtful, literate... drawing analogies from a prodigious range of fields... provocative". - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781594489259
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books,U.S.
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Mode
  • ISBN-10: 1594489254
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm


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