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Author:   Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Professor of Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.124kg
ISBN:  

9780198819660

ISBN 10:   0198819668
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   05 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Hate, Politics, and Compassion Part One: Antiquity and the Middle Ages 1: Epidemics in Antiquity: The Moral Universe and Natural Causes 2: Ancient Epidemics: What the Oracles Had To Say 3: Black Death Persecution and Abandonment 4: Mechanisms for Unity: Saints and Plagues Part Two: Early Modernity 5: Syphilis: Naming and Blaming? 6: Plague Spreaders Part Three: Modernity: Epidemics of Hate 7: Cholera's First European Tour: The Story in the British Isles 8: Cholera on the Continent and in America 9: Cholera Violence: An Italian Story in Comparative Perspective 10: Cholera: A Comparative History of Disturbance 11: Smallpox Cruelty: The Case of North America 12: Smallpox and Collective Violence 13: Smallpox Violence in Victorian Britain Part IV: Modernity: Plagues of Politics 14: Plague since 1894: India 15: Plague Beyond India 16: Myths of Plague Part V: Modernity: Plagues of Compassion 17: Yellow Fever: Stories from Philadelphia and Memphis 18: Yellow Fever: The Broader Picture 19: The Great Influenza: A Forgotten Pandemic? 20: Quarantine and Blame 21: A Pandemic of Compassion 22: Comparative Vistas (I): The Great Influenza 23: Comparative Vistas (II): Beyond the Battlefields 24: Conclusion 25: Epilogue. HIV/AIDS: An Epidemic of Hate, Compassion, and Politics Bibliography and Appendix of Newspapers

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Epidemics, conceived in the influenza scare of 2009, is in itself a commemoration of all the deadliest plagues to have afflicted our species. ... covering the major infections from 430 BC, through the Black Death (134751) and syphilis (14945), to cholera (1832 onwards), smallpox in nineteenth-century America, plague in India since 1894, yellow fever (Southern USA), and the Great Influenza, with a coda on HIV/AIDS ... Cohn's aim is not just to tell their stories (although there are stories aplenty), but to tell them from a new perspective. * Anne Hardy, Times Literary Supplement *

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Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Over the past sixteen years, he has focused on the history of popular unrest in late medieval and early modern Europe and on the history of disease and medicine. Cohn's latest two books are Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns (2013) and Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance (OUP, 2010).

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