Mark Welford

Geographies of Plague Pandemics

The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Geographies of Plague Pandemics attempts to synthesis our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367592417
• ISBN-10: 036759241X
• Artikelnr.: 69891162

Autorenporträt

Mark Welford is a nature-society geographer at Georgia Southern University. His research interests include: environmental change in, and conservation of, tropical montane environments; hurricanes and climate change; and the spatial dynamics of historical pandemics. He has taught at Georgia Southern since 1993. He has also directed Study Abroad Trips to the Ecuador, India, the Czech Republic, Poland and Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Plague, its emergence and persistence through recent human
history Chapter 2 The Athenian Pandemic Chapter 3 Antonine Pandemic and
Justinianic Plague Chapter 4 The medieval Black Death Arrives in Europe
Chapter 5 The scourge of Y. pestis re-emerges and persists from 1361 to
1879 Chapter 6 Re-emergence in China and spread to Singapore, Taiwan,
Bombay, San Francisco and Australia before 1901 Chapter 7 1901 to present
Chapter 8 Weaponized Plague and Plague Surveillance