Plague and the city

by Engelmann, Lukas Henderson, John Lynteris, Christos

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"Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval and early modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to prevent or limit the outbreak of epidemic disease. It is ideal for students of early modern history, and of the early modern city and plague more specifically"--

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Full title :Plague and the city / edited by Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson and Christos Lynteris.

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Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429450044, 0429450044, 9780429832499, 0429832494, 9780429832482, 0429832486, 9780429832505, 0429832508
DOI:10.4324/9780429450044
oclc:on1066115448
LC Classification:RA644.P7
Dewey Decimal:614.5/732

Introduction: the plague and the city in history / Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson and Christos Lynteris -- "Great stenches, horrible sights and deadly abominations": butchery and the battle against plague in late medieval English towns / Carole Rawcliffe -- Plague in early modern London: chronologies, localities, and environments / Vanessa Harding -- "Filth is the mother of corruption": plague and the built environment in early modern Florence / John Henderson -- Plague views: epidemics, photography, and the ruined city / Robert Peckham -- The disease map and the city: desire and imitation in the Bombay plague, 1896-1914 / Nicholas H.A. Evans -- "A source of sickness": photographic mapping of the plague in Honolulu in 1900 / Lukas Engelmann -- Public culture and the spectacle of epidemic disease in Rabat and Casablanca / Branwyn Poleykett.

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Epidemics -- history History History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine MEDICAL -- Public Health Peste -- Histoire Plague Plague -- epidemiology Plague -- history Plague -- Prevention public health Public health -- History Santé publique -- Histoire Urban Health -- history Urban Health Services -- history