Plague Ports : : The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901 / / Myron Echenberg.
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 s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Illustrations
- part 1. Belle Époque and Bubonic Plague¹
- part 2. Asian Beginnings
- 1. An Unexampled Calamity
- 2. City of the Plague
- part 3. Plague at the Doors of Europe
- 3. The Plague Has at Last Arrived
- 4. They Have a Love of Clean Underlinen and of Fresh Air
- part 4. South American Settings
- 5. A Bubonic Plague Epidemic Does Not Exist in This Country Buenos Aires, 1900
- 6. The Victory of Hygiene, Good Taste, and Art
- part 5. Plague under the Stars and Stripes
- 7. Plague in Paradise
- 8. Black Plague Creeps into America
- part 6. Plague under the Union Jack
- 9. The Inhabitants of Sydney No More Go Barefoot Than Do the Inhabitants of London
- 10. It Is a Miracle We Are Not Visited by a Black Plague
- part 7. Plague’s Lessons
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author