Plague - Paul Slack

Plague

A Very Short Introduction

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Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2021 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-887111-8 (ISBN)
11,20 inkl. MwSt
Throughout history plague has caused some of the greatest periods of hardship for humanity, from the Black Death to the Great Plague of London. This book explores the causes of plague, the presence of plague in art and literature, and the lasting impact of the disease on how people and governments behave when threatened by epidemic crises.
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Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the 'Plague of Justinian' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. In the 21st century Coronavirus pandemics have served as a powerful reminder that we have not escaped the global impact of epidemic diseases.

In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Slack takes a global approach to explore the historical and social impact of plague over the centuries, looking at the ways in which it has been interpreted, and the powerful images it has left behind in art and literature. Examining what plague meant for those who suffered from it, and how governments began to fight against it, he demonstrates the impact plague has had on modern notions of public health, and how it has shaped our history. This new edition also includes evidence on the nature of plague taken from recent discoveries in ancient DNA as well as new research on plague in the Middle East.

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Paul Slack is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England, (OUP , 1990), and The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England, (OUP 2015), which won the Samuel Pepys Prize for 2015. He has been the Editor of the journal Past and Present, is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, until 2010.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1: Plague: what's in a name??
2: Pandemics and epidemics
3: Big impacts: the Black Death
4: Private horrors
5: Public health
6: Enduring images
7: The lessons of histories
References
Further Reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Very Short Introductions
Zusatzinfo 19 black and white images
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 112 x 175 mm
Gewicht 124 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10 0-19-887111-2 / 0198871112
ISBN-13 978-0-19-887111-8 / 9780198871118
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