Plague: A Very Short Introduction
In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Slack explores the historical impact of plague over the centuries. Looking at the ways in which it has been interpreted, and the powerful images it has left behind in art and literature, he considers how it was fought and controlled, and the impact it had on our modern notions of public health.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958954-8
- EAN: 9780199589548
- Produktnummer: 12225281
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
- Masse: H17.4 cm x B11.2 cm x D1.0 cm 141 g
- Abbildungen: 15 black and white illustrations
- Gewicht: 141
Über den Autor
Paul Slack is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History at Oxford University, and author of a classic study of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (Routledge 1985, OUP 1990). He has written books on urban history and poverty in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and essays on the history of disease and the environment over longer periods, and been editor of the journal Past and Present. He is a Fellow of the BritishAcademy and was Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, until his retirement in 2010.
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