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Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Book by James C. Mohr; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii)--History--19th Century, Fires--Hawaii--Honolulu--History--19th Century, Plague--Hawaii--Honolulu--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...recurring waves of the so-called black death-a nickname it acquired because...Chinese physicians, who knew the black plague as the great eternal sorrow illness...this was exactly the same bubonic plague that had ravaged the globe in previous...
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Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues

Book by Christopher Wills; Addison Wesley, 1996

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Epidemics--History, Yellow Fever

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India cont . plague 1907 , 67 plague 1994 , 12 -14, 66...Jesudason, Mary, 106 Jews and thhe Black Death, 62 -3 Johanson, Donald, 7 John...55 -8, 66 , 252 , 270 , see also Black Death, bubonic plague Kaffa, siege 1346...
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Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology

Book by Christine M. Boeckl; Truman State University Press, 2000

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Plague In Art, Plague In Literature

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bubonic plague. See also Black Death; Plague and AIDS, 150, 152 Black Death, 9-10 0 causes of, 14, 156...128 David, Jacques L., 138 8 death bad, 74, 109 good, 73, 134 sudden plague deaths, 32, 56, 64, 88, 177n19 Death...
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Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present

Book by D. Ann Herring, Alan C. Swedlund; Berg, 2010

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Environmentally Induced Diseases, Epidemics--History, Famines--History, Plague--History

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...of the classic symbol of plague, bubonic plague ( Yersinia...mortality associated with the Black Death would return (Cohn 2002...interpretations of the Black Death. The medieval historian...knowledge was misapplied to the Black Death, which he claims...
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

Book by Daniel Defoe; J.M. Dent, 1908

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Plague--London, 1665

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Now the plague compasseth the walls of...brought the plague and death upon many. Some by the...assaulted them; and Sergeant Death hath arrested them, and...Now the cloud is very black, and the storm comes down upon us very sharp. Now Death rides triumphantly on...

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Journal Articles on: black death plague

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Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945

Journal article by James L.A. Webb Jr.; Africa, Vol. 73, 2003

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Black Death, White Medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of...MYRON ECHENBERG, Black Death, White Medicine...principal vector of plague, public health measures...well-researched, Black Death, White Medicine makes...
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James C. Mohr. Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Journal article by Ka-Che Yip; China Review International, Vol. 12, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown (Book)

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James C. Mohr. Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulus Chinatown. by Ka-che Yip James C. Mohr. Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulus Chinatown. New York...
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The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe

Journal article by Sharon T. Strocchia; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...2) In turn, the Black Death affected modern plague experience, as officials...and symptoms of the Black Death reported in contemporary chronicles, plague tracts, and saints...identical. Unlike modern plague, the Black Death killed in household...
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The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe

Journal article by David O. Mcneil; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

The Black Death Transformed...Death as modern bubonic plague" (53). He is so...illness other than modern plague that medical historians...scores of chronicles and plague tracts, and compiling...do not match modern plagues contagion, speed of...histories of the Black Death. Moreover, modern...seasonal patterns of deaths in time of plague...
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The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study

Journal article by Sheldon Watts; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Black Death in Egypt and England...Sheldon Watts The Black Death in Egypt and...caused by the bubonic plague in and after 1348...in the wake of the plagues." p 16 Borsch then...visitations of bubonic plague have been shown to...

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Magazine Articles on: black death plague

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AIDS and the Black Death: A New PBS Documentary Connects HIV and the Plague through People like Steve Crohn, Whose Ancestors' Immunity to the Black Death Has Made Them Resistant to HIV

Magazine article by Lawrence Ferber; The Advocate, October 29, 2002

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AIDS and the Black Death: A New PBS Documentary Connects HIV and the Plague through People like Steve Crohn...Whose Ancestors Immunity to the Black Death Has Made Them Resistant...ancestors had immunity to the black death that devastated Europe...
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Return of the Black Death

Magazine article by Edward Marriott; Geographical, Vol. 74, September 2002

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Black death--Environmental aspects, Madagascar--Health aspects, Plague--Prevention

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...of the Black Death by Edward Marriott...medieval world, the Black Death spread...its heartland. Plague once came ashore...to pneumonic plague and to increase...return of the Black Death, specifically...preponderance of plague-infested rats...
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The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever: Ole J. Benedictow Describes How He Calculated That the Black Death Killed 50 Million People in the 14th Century, or 60 per Cent of Europe's Entire Population

Magazine article by Ole J. Benedictow; History Today, Vol. 55, March 2005

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Black Death, ca. 1347-1400, Black death, Epidemics--14th century AD, Epidemics--Europe, Middle Ages--14th century AD

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...become the Black Deaths first European...of 1346, plague broke out...the Black Death slipped unnoticed...the second plague front was...dissemination of the Black Death to Oslo...pattern of the Black Deaths further conquest...point for the plagues conquest...introductions of plague contagion...
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Jewels of Disease and Discrimination: Corinne Julius Introduces a New Exhibition of Dazzling Medieval Jewellery at London's Wallace Collection, Which Reveals Both the Vigour and the Vulnerability of Jewish Communities in Central Europe during the Years before and during the Black Death

Magazine article by Corinne Julius; History Today, Vol. 59, March 2009

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Black Death, ca. 1347-1400--Social aspects, Black death--Social aspects, Jewelry--Exhibitions, Jewish history--Exhibitions, Jews--Exhibitions, Jews--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Years before and during the Black Death. by Corinne Julius ILLUSTRATION...exhibition Treasures of the Black Death at the Wallace Collection...keeping at the time of the Black Death. The Colmar hoard...from Constantinople of the plague in the Sicilian port of...
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First Light ... Tuscany and the Dawn of the Renaissance: A New Saint, a New Art; the City: Building Reputations; Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany; and the Invention of Banking

Magazine article by Barbara Herberholtz; Arts & Activities, Vol. 139, June 2006

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Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, First Light ... Tuscany and the Dawn of the Renaissance: A New Saint, a New Art (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, The City: Building Reputations (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, The Invention of Banking (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, Video recordings--Video recording reviews

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...Building Reputations; Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany; and the Invention...Building Reputations; Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany; and The Invention...before the outbreak of the great plague. Here the way was paved for the...

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Newspaper Articles on: black death plague

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Rats 'Not to Blame' for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed on by People, Says Historian

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2011

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Historians, Plague, Sloane, Barney

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Not to Blame for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed on by People...that questions whether the Black Death really was bubonic plague. GODS PUNISHMENT Medieval doctors believed the Black Death was a punishment from...
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Rats 'Not to Blame' for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed on by People, Says Historian

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2011

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Sloane, Barney

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Blame for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed...was certainly the Black Death but it is by no...in fact bubonic plague. Dr Sloane has...had died from the plague in Dublin - around...doctors believed the Black Death was a punishment...
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The Guinness Book of Amazing Nature: Part 3 Animal Kingdom - Disease & Extinction; the Black Death Plague, Spread by Rat Fleas, Raged for Four Years and Killed 66 Million People

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), November 15, 1998

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Guinness Publishing Ltd.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Disease Extinction; the Black Death Plague, Spread by Rat Fleas, Raged...alarming rate. Mass epidemics and plagues can result. The Black Death The Black Death originated...mixture of bubonic and pneumonic plague, it was transmitted by rat...
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Revealed: Ancient Clues That Tell How Black Death Could Return to Kill Us All; A Television Documentary Will Claim This Week That the 'Plague' Which Killed Millions Was Actually a Virus That We Would Be Just as Powerless to Fight Today

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 10, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...virulent than bubonic plague. So what was it...speculated that the Black Death was Ebola or another...fatality rate of the Black Death, killing about half...claimed that the Black Deaths pustules were similar...candidate for the Black Death than Ebola. With...
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HIV Link Not Clear in 'Black Death'; Gene Mutation Saved Plague Victims

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 26, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HIV link not clear in Black Death; Gene mutation saved plague victims Byline: Gabriella Boston...make it? The "Mystery of the Black Death," the first of five new...the plague recovered from the "Black Death" or never fell ill at all...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: black death plague

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Black Death

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BLACK DEATH see plague . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Plague

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PLAGUE any contagious, malignant...bubonic plague and the black plague (or Black Death), both forms of the same...the number of cases of plague has been increasing annually...Bibliography See P. Ziegler, The Black Death (1969); W. Whitman...
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Scotland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...compounded by the scourge of the Black Death plague epidemic, which killed nearly a...Guise (queen regent after Jamess death in 1542) and of her daughter Mary...authority. In 1603, on Elizabeths death, he succeeded to the English throne...
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Edward III

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...putting Mortimer to death and forcing his mother...1346 47). His son, the Black Prince, achieved a popular...the poor health of the Black Prince, led to a truce...by visitations of the Black Death (see plague ), which struck first...
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Italy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Cassiodorus. After Theodorics death (526), the murder (535) of...warfare continued long after the death (1250) of Frederick, which marked...condottiere ). Compared to the Black Death, the plague that ravaged Italy in 1348, the...

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