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Pandemic Re-Awakenings

The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919

Herausgeber: Beiner, Guy

Beschreibung

A multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers chart the worldwide historiographical neglect and silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories of this pandemic.

Autor

Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who specializes in the history of remembering and forgetting. He holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland and was a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, as well as a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary Scholar at the Central European University, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Burns Scholar at Boston College. His books on social memory/forgetting and folk history have won multiple international awards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 165mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9780192843739
• ISBN-10: 0192843737
• Artikelnr.: 62311551