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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

Paperback

Medical Reference20th Century United States HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 0375757082
ISBN13: 9780375757082
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Mar 9 2004
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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