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Books on: black plague history

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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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bubonic plague cont . vaccine, 74 , 99 Yersinia...54 , 74 -89, 185 , 267 see also Black Death, Justinians plague Budd...antimalarial drugs, 165 influenza, 267 plague history, 59 , 292 plague 1894 , 72 , 73 -4 plague 20th century...
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Viruses, Plagues, and History

Book by Michael B. A. Oldstone; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Virus Diseases--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...HIV killed rapidly, instead of over a tento fifteen-year period, it would resemble the influenza plague of 1918 1919 or the Black Death plague of the Middle Ages that reduced the population of Europe by one-fourth. Currently, one-third...
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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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...Studies of the classic symbol of plague, bubonic plague ( Yersinia...mortality associated with the Black Death would return (Cohn 2002...informed interpretations of the Black Death. The medieval historian...knowledge was misapplied to the Black Death, which he claims could...
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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

...An Essay on the Plague, 1721, p. 41...The Fifth Famous History, reports the instances...they saw many black spots ... in him...there appeareth black spots ( Several Choice Histories ... of the Plague, 1666, p. 9...

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Journal Articles on: black plague history

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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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...White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public...Jr. MYRON ECHENBERG, Black Death, White Medicine...third great pandemic of black plague swept the globe...colonial Senegal. In Black Death, White Medicine...wide new windows on the history of colonial Senegal...
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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...bacteriologically confirmed plague sites for destruction...implementation of anti-plague policies rested on the...a professor of Asian history at the University of...
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Plagues, Healers and Patients in Early Modern Europe

Journal article by William Eamon; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999

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Epidemics--History, Historical research--Bibliography, Plague--History, Yersinia infections--History

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Plagues, healers and patients...historical literature. Plagues were a constant...concluded that plague struck somewhere...that caused the Black Death and the succeeding...Shrewsbury (A History of Bubonic Plague...title of his book: Plague? Jesuit Accounts...to the medical history of the plague...in most medical histories. In general...
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Poussin, Plague, and Early Modern Medicine

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

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

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...41 Though the bubonic plagues namesake buboes are...gesture in religious plague imagery since the Renaissance...that renders the tragic history of The Plague of Ashdod...men."185 Like The Plague of Ashdod, the Landscape...investigation of the plagues natural etiology and...Europe, the number of plague subjects increases following...in his study of the history of fear provokes consideration...
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Guido Reni's Pallione del Voto and the Plague of 1630

Journal article by Catherine R. Puglisi; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995

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Art, Art criticism, Art history, Italy, Plague, Reni, Guido (1575-1642)

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...of Pisa evoking the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth...engraving after Raphaels The Plague of Phrygia (ca. 1512...and Nicolas Poussins Plague at Ashdod (1630...belong to the category of history painting, even though...or liberated from the plague. In ignorance of its...society attributed the plagues origins to Gods wrath...

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Magazine Articles on: black plague history

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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

...before and during the Black Death. by Corinne...chapter of European history. A new exhibition Treasures of the Black Death at the Wallace...at the time of the Black Death. The Colmar...Constantinople of the plague in the Sicilian port...
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Civilians in Warfare 1500-1789: Civilians Have Always Suffered in Warfare, and Early Modern Europe Was No Exception. but They Contributed to War as Well, through Their Taxes, Their Victuals and Their Bodies. Jeremy Black Explores the Relationship between Civilian and Military

Magazine article by Jeremy Black; History Today, Vol. 56, May 2006

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Civilians--Social aspects, Europe--History, Europe--Military aspects, Europe--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Victuals and Their Bodies. Jeremy Black Explores the Relationship between...Civilian and Military. by Jeremy Black THE CRIPPLED, GUN-TOTING...troops constituted military history. To such historians the early...and Austrian armies took the plague with them into Italy in 1629...
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Tb Superbugs: the Coming Plague on All Our Houses

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

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Epidemics, Prisons, Russia, Tuberculosis

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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...responsibility for its control. The natural history of tuberculosis teaches us that the disease...with otherwise uncomplicated medical histories. Public health officials in Peru and...
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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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Death. In the plague history of Norway from the Black Death 1348...dissemination of the Black Death to Oslo...pattern of the Black Deaths further...point for the plagues conquest of...introductions of plague contagion...milestone in the history of the Black...
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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

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

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...civilization by sporting black leather jackets and...like The Ten-Cent Plague more than I do because...noted, The Ten-Cent Plague is crammed with minibiographies...from The Ten-Cent Plagues insert of photos: these...raised by The Ten-Cent Plague, an issue that takes...circumstance because American history instructs us that...

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Newspaper Articles on: black plague history

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The Black Plague and Its Descendants

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 13, 2005

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

The Black Plague and Its Descendants...Asia, many of the plagues threatening us today...story of how this plague bacillus would transform history is told as it moved...born after the first plague. Other plagues would follow, but...
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BLACK DEATH CAME FROM BUG IN SOIL; Victims' DNA Reveals Plague Origins

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 13, 2011

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DNA

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

BLACK DEATH CAME FROM BUG...Victims DNA Reveals Plague Origins. Byline: MIKE...BODIES in mediaeval plague pits have led to scientists...the worst epidemics in history - the Black Death...ancestor of all modern plagues worldwide. Every outbreak...descendant of the medieval plague. "With a better understanding...
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Democrats' Death by Suicide; Obamacare Is a Historic Moment - like the Black Plague Was

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), March 22, 2010

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Political parties

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

...Is a Historic Moment - like the Black Plague Was. Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES...of health care will go down in history as the worst piece of legislation...plan is historic, but so was the Black Plague. President Obama went to Capitol...
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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

...That Tell How Black Death Could Return...Week That the Plague Which Killed Millions...SAMUEL COHN The Black Death that scythed...killer in human history. Victims suffered...the 17th Century plagues in London, Naples...know where the Black Death has been...Professor of 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

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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...Mass epidemics and plagues can result. The Black Death The Black Death originated in Asia...bubonic and pneumonic plague, it was transmitted...extinction in Earths history came at the end of the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: black plague history

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Plague

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Reappraisal (1985); R. Horrox, 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...
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Edward III

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the Black Death (see plague ), which struck first...clerical party led by the Black Prince. Supported by...after the death of the Black Prince. Edward III died...and the son of the Black Prince came to the throne...figured importantly in history: Edward the Black Prince...
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Faeroe Islands

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Logting are popularly elected to four-year terms. History The earliest known inhabitants were Celtic. In the 8th...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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Renaissance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, 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...
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Scotland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...by the scourge of the Black Death plague epidemic, which killed...The oldest detailed history of Scotland is W. Robertson, The History of Scotland during the...Two standard general histories are by P. H. Brown...A Study in Scottish History (1902), Scotland...

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