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The Barbary Plague
Marilyn Chase
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Overview
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.
Details
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2004-03-09
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- EN
- Categories
- History / United States / 20th Century, Medical / History, Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / General
- ISBN-13
- 9780375757082
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