Plague: A Very Short Introduction
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.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-887111-8
- EAN: 9780198871118
- Produktnummer: 34821748
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
- Masse: H17.4 cm x B11.1 cm
- Abbildungen: 19 black and white images
Über den Autor
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 ofLinacre College, Oxford, until 2010.
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