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Plague
A Very Short Introduction
Taschenbuch von Paul Slack
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780198871118
ISBN-10: 0198871112
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Slack, Paul
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 174 x 115 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Slack
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,124 kg
Artikel-ID: 119030188
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780198871118
ISBN-10: 0198871112
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Slack, Paul
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 174 x 115 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Slack
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,124 kg
Artikel-ID: 119030188
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