black plague history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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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

...Data Mohr, James C. Plague and fire: battling black death and the burning of Honolulus Chinatown...references and index. ISBN o-r9-Sr623r-5 r. Plague-Hawaii-Honolulu-History-I9th century. 2. Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii...
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Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology

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

Subjects:

Plague In Art, Plague In Literature

Collections: Entire Library

...throughout the history of plague art. The...known as the Black Death. It...affected history. The first, the Justinian Plague, infected...second, the Black Death...shown in some history paintings...developing plague pictures...after the Black Death struck...
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Publick as Private, Which Happened in London during the Last Great Visitation in 1665

Book by Daniel Defoe, Louis Landa; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Fiction, London (England)--History--17th Century--Fiction, Plague--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The text and notes are reproduced from the Oxford English Novels edition. The new Introduction sheds light on the relationship of the Journal to Pepys's diary, and a new medical note relates the latest research on the Plague.
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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

Subjects:

Plague--London, 1665

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...I45 were of the plague. During the month...for nobody put on black or made a formal...jacket, a band, and a black cloak, which was...for it till the plague itself put an end...this part of the history of the plague is very melancholy...
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The Plague Pamphlets of Thomas Dekker

Book by F. P. Wilson, Thomas Dekker; Clarendon Press, 1925

Subjects:

Plague--England--London

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Authorship of the Plague Pamphlets...B. L. = Black Letter. G...the others in Black Letter. Copy...ing sicke of the Plague. | At the ende...seeing the black blew stripes of the plague sticking on his...

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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...conflicts with the French. After 1945, the plague disappeared from Senegal. Gracefully written and well-researched, Black Death, White Medicine makes an important...epidemiology and opens wide new windows on the history of colonial Senegal. JAMES L. A. WEBB...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...health. Ultimately, the formulation and implementation of anti-plague policies rested on the political power given to the Board of...in the state. Ka-che Yip Ka-che Yip is a professor of Asian history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, specializing...
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Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis's "The Yares of the Black Mountains; a True Story"

Journal article by Michele L. Mock; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 19, 2003

Subjects:

Davis, Rebecca Harding--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The Yares of the Black Mountains," Davis...receive the keys of history and of nature" (254-55...colloquialism as the "White Plague"; and its enduring...The Yares of the Black Mountains," environment...The Yares of the Black Mountains: A True...American literary history" (250). Silhouettes...
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Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis's "The Yares of the Black Mountains: A True Story"

Journal article by Michele L. Mock; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 19, 2002

Subjects:

Tuberculosis--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The Yares of the Black Mountains," Davis...receive the keys of history and of nature" (254-55...colloquialism as the "White Plague"; and its enduring...The Yares of the Black Mountains," environment...The Yares of the Black Mountains: A True...American literary history" (250). Silhouettes...
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Poussin, Plague, and Early Modern Medicine

Journal article by Sheila Barker; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004

Subjects:

Art criticism, Art history, Painting, Plague, Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665), Visual artists

Collections: Entire Library

...the presence of the plague some people die occasionally...pure consternation and black humor . . . probably...renders the tragic history of The Plague of Ashdod more vivid...with Gregory ol Tourss history of the Roman plague of 561, when "a multitude...

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Return of the Black Death

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...DISEASE IN RECORDED HISTORY has carried the totemic power of plague. No disease has erupted...population during the Black Death of the Middle...conditions allowed plague to spread in the first...sixth century, the Black Death of the Middle...
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Tb Superbugs: the Coming Plague on All Our Houses

Magazine article by Paul Farmer; Natural History, Vol. 108, April 1999

Subjects:

Epidemics, Prisons, Russia, Tuberculosis

Collections: Entire Library

Tb Superbugs: the Coming Plague on All Our Houses by Paul Farmer Sergei is tall and thin, with black horn-rim glasses that give him more the...responsibility for its control. The natural history of tuberculosis teaches us that the disease...
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America

Magazine article by Howard Schneider; The Humanist, Vol. 68, July 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...photos: these, disappointingly, are in black and white and feature only a few drawings...issue implicitly raised by The Ten-Cent Plague, an issue that takes the form of a question...in this circumstance because American history instructs us that, when it comes to words...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...also of the spread of the Black Death. In the plague history of Norway from the Black...Ole J. Benedictow, The Black Death, 1346-1353. The Complete History (Boydell Brewer, 2004); Ole J. Benedictow, Plague in the Late Medieval Nordic...
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America: Black Americans Cheered Michael Jackson's Acquittal Because to Them He Represents an Underclass Oppressed for Centuries by Police, Courts and Juries

Magazine article by Andrew Stephen; New Statesman, Vol. 134, June 20, 2005

Subjects:

Black-white relations--Forecasts and trends, Race discrimination--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Entire Library

...avoided Santa Maria as I would the plague for the past three months, refusing...unusually--a group of eight or so black schoolchildren went past me...and juries throughout American history--something that continues today...trial of Thomas Miller-El, a black man sentenced to death in Texas...

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The Black Plague and Its Descendants

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 13, 2005

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

...pestis, the Black Death, arrived...how this plague bacillus would transform history is told as...not know history. I remember...where the Black Plague thrived...plague. Other plagues would follow...affect on history as the Black Death. The...
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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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...That the Plague Which Killed...COHN The Black Death that...in human history. Victims...bubonic plague is spread by black rats and...17th Century plagues in London...where the Black Death has...Medieval History at the University...
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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

Subjects:

Guinness Publishing Ltd.

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

...plagues can result. The Black Death The Black Death originated in Asia in the 11th Century...people. A mixture of bubonic and pneumonic plague, it was transmitted by rat fleas. Cholera...most famous mass extinction in Earths history came at the end of the Cretaceous Period...
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PLAGUE! It Could Hit Britain Any Time and Kill Millions. This Week Experts Revealed That a Deadly New Flu Virus Had Passed between Humans for the First Time. So Why Is the Government Doing Nothing to Prevent an Epidemic?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 29, 2005

Subjects:

Oxford, John

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

...the worst in recorded history, would be on the loose...halt the spread of a plague that could devastate the country like a modern Black Death. This week that...assumed that devastating plagues had been consigned to...huge bomb of the pending plague was the threat that most...
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A Plague of Yankees to Bully the Innocent

Newspaper article by Wesley Pruden; The Washington Times, April 2, 1996

Subjects:

Faubus, Orval

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

...than any other politician in the states history, employed more than a quarter of a century...investigation as another visitation of a plague of the hated yankees. Kenneth Starr is...worked to death, and on occasion escapees, black and white, have been hunted down by mobs...

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Plague

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ed., The Black Death (1994); O. J. Benedictow, The Black Death 1346 1353: The Complete History (2004); W. Orent, Plague (2004); J. Aberth, The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348 1350 (2005); J. Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate...
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Renaissance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...stories told by Italian courtesans taking refuge from the Black Plague. Coluccio Salutati (1331 1406) was a Florentine political...Renaissance (1994); L. Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (1996). ____________________ Copyright...
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Faeroe Islands

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Logting are popularly elected to four-year terms. History The earliest known inhabitants were Celtic. In the...The population was nearly wiped out by an outbreak of black plague in the 14th cent. and was soon after replaced by Norwegian...
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Rat

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...and was responsible for the spreading of plague. It has since been largely displaced in...an albino strain of the brown rat. The black rat is commonly dark gray. It reaches...mouse . See H. Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History (1935); S. A. Barnett, The Rat, a Study...
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Edward III

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...visitations of the Black Death (see plague ), which struck first in 1348 49 and again...Gaunt and the clerical party led by the Black Prince. Supported by Alice Perrers, John...seven sons, five figured importantly in history: Edward the Black Prince; Lionel, duke...

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