UID:
kobvindex_HPB926106557
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781942401018
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1942401019
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1942401000
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9781942401001
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1641899409
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9781641899406
Series Statement:
The medieval globe ; volume 1
Content:
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.
Note:
Preface -- The Black Death and Ebola: on the value of comparison /
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Introducing The Medieval Globe /
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Editor's introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death /
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Taking 'pandemic' seriously: making the Black Death global /
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The Black Death and its consequences for the Jewish community in Táarrega: lessons from history and archeology /
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The anthropology of plague: insights from bioarchaeological analyses of epidemic cemeteries /
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Plague depopulation and irrigation decay in Medieval Egypt /
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Plague persistence in Western Europe: a hypothesis /
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New science and old sources: why the Ottoman experience of plague matters /
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Heterogeneous immunological landscapes and medieval plague: an invitation to a new dialogue between historians and immunologists /
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The Black Death and the future of the plague /
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Epilogue: A hypothesis on the East Asian beginnings of the Yersinia pestis polytomy /
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1942401000
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
History.
DOI:
10.1515/9781942401018
URL:
Cambridge University Press
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
