Before the 20th century many deaths in England, and most likely a majority, were caused by
infectious diseases. The focus here is on the biggest killers, plague, typhus, smallpox …

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban
environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history. Here, the eminent urban …

This book tells an intellectual, academic and personal story. It charts successive waves of
theoretical and methodological change in the linked fields of urban, socio-medical …

Abstract Though Harold Perkin dates “the rise of professional society” to the late nineteenth
century, recent scholars of the Victorian period have noted that professionals laid much of …