A History of the World in Six Plagues - Edna Bonhomme

A History of the World in Six Plagues

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2025
Dialogue Books (Verlag)
978-0-349-70437-1 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
A History of the World in Six Plagues is a timely examination of the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics.



In a rare blend of rigorous research and truly compelling story-telling, Dr Edna Bonhomme traces the long history of viral outbreaks under conditions of social confinement-the plantation system, colonial camps, imprisonment, quarantine, factories-and reveals how these enclosed spaces fuel epidemics.



This is a book about the complicated histories of movement and stagnation, and about the time we live in, with a focus on the racialised history of several key epidemics from the impact of cholera on the plantation economy to HIV/AIDS outbreaks in US prisons.

Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer and book critic and is a contributing editor for Frieze Magazine. She is coeditor of the book After Sex and her essays have appeared in Esquire, Guardian, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Nation and elsewhere. She earned a PhD in history of science from Princeton University. Edna previously held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Camargo Foundation, and Baldwin for the Arts. She has received awards from the Robert Silvers Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation. She lives in Berlin, Germany.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.3.2025
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-349-70437-6 / 0349704376
ISBN-13 978-0-349-70437-1 / 9780349704371
Zustand Neuware
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