Paul Slack

Plague: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout history plague has caused some of the greatest periods of hardship for humanity, from the Black Death to the Great Plague of London. This book explores the causes of plague, the presence of plague in art and literature, and the lasting impact of the disease on how people and governments behave when threatened by epidemic crises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Abmessung: 174mm x 115mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 124g
• ISBN-13: 9780198871118
• ISBN-10: 0198871112
• Artikelnr.: 60326728

Autorenporträt

Paul Slack is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England, (OUP , 1990), and The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England, (OUP 2015), which won the Samuel Pepys Prize for 2015. He has been the Editor of the journal Past and Present, is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, until 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1: Plague: what's in a name??
2: Pandemics and epidemics
3: Big impacts: the Black Death
4: Private horrors
5: Public health
6: Enduring images
7: The lessons of histories
References
Further Reading
Index