The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
by:
Marilyn Chase (author)
The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the...
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The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375757082 (0375757082)
ASIN: 375757082
Publish date: March 9th 2004
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Science,
American,
Science Nature,
Health,
Medical,
American History,
Medicine,
Illness,
Disease
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