Format:
Online-Ressource (XVI, 349 S.)
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Ill., Kt.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780814722824
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Content:
A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three "pearls" of the Pacific; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in South America; Alexandria and Cape Town in Africa; and Oporto in Europe. Myron Echenberg examines plague's impact in each of these cities, on the politicians, the medical and publi
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814722329
Additional Edition:
Print version Plague Ports : The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Echenberg, Myron, 1940 - Plague ports New York, N.Y. [u.a.] : New York University Press, 2007 ISBN 0814722326
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814722329
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Beulenpest
;
Stadt
;
Geschichte 1894-1901
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