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4. Steven Johnson: ''The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic'' – This book is a super fun, quick read on nineteenth-century medical history. Cholera was that examines a huge deal particular outbreak of cholera in nineteenth-century London – its spread was primarily in 1854. Johnson's work explains how theories of contagion evolved from blaming sickness on "bad air", to blaming sickness on bacteria due to dismal living that arose from unsanitary conditions that were a product of rapid urbanization and the Industrial Revolution.
5. Sally Mitchell: ''Daily Life in Victorian England'' – This book is a quick primer on social history in Victorian England. It deals mostly with the rise of the middle class, which is a very important part of nineteenth-century history. Great for a quick overview of Victorian social history.
