The Horrors Of The Bubonic Plague

Author : Claire Throp
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1484641752
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horrors of the Bubonic Plague written by Claire Throp and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history of the bubonic plague, from causes and effects to what made this period of history so deadly.

Author : Claire Throp
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 1474749410
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horror of the Bubonic Plague written by Claire Throp and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history of the bubonic plague, from causes and effects to what made this period of history so deadly.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476797749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the Plague written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Author : David K. Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609464
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague written by David K. Randall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable—or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread—the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.

Author : Emily Mahoney
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1534560475
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Death written by Emily Mahoney and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bubonic Plague terrorized Europe and North Africa in the 14th century, killing millions of people. Readers learn many fascinating facts about what became known as the “Black Death.” They discover that the cause of the disease was unknown for most of the epidemic, and many unlikely things were blamed, including bad smells and occult rituals. Detailed sidebars and a comprehensive timeline augment the compelling text as it examines how the disastrous events of the plague were exacerbated by people’s ignorance of scientific facts.

Author : Claire Throp
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 148464171X
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horrors of the Bubonic Plague written by Claire Throp and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history of the bubonic plague, from causes and effects to what made this period of history so deadly.

Author : Marilyn Chase
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375757082
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barbary Plague written by Marilyn Chase and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ole Jørgen Benedictow
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843832143
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Death, 1346-1353 written by Ole Jørgen Benedictow and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Black Death considers the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality and its impact on history.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
ISBN 13 : 1096608979
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Death written by Hourly History and published by Hourly History. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched book, the trajectory of the plague’s march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored. Inside you will read about... ✓ What was the Black Death? ✓ A Short History of Pandemics ✓ Chronology & Trajectory ✓ Causes & Pathology ✓ Medieval Theories & Disease Control ✓ Black Death in Medieval Culture ✓ Consequences Fascinating insights into the medieval mind’s perception of the disease and examinations of contemporary accounts give a complete picture of what the world’s most effective killer meant to medieval society in particular and humanity in general.

Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144222391X
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctoring the Black Death written by John Aberth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.