Peter Baldwin (Los Angeles University of California)

Gebundenes Buch

Fighting the First Wave

Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe

Beschreibung

COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers why in this first definitive account of the global politics of pandemic.

Autor

Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. His previous publications include Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (2005), Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (1999), and The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (2014). His latest book, Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History is forthcoming in the fall of 2021.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9781316518335
• ISBN-10: 1316518337
• Artikelnr.: 60745168