Ida Milne

Stacking the coffins

Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918-19

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Produktbeschreibung

A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781526154354
• ISBN-10: 1526154358
• Artikelnr.: 59765417

Autorenporträt

Ida Milne is European history lecturer at Carlow College and visiting research fellow in the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College, Dublin

Inhaltsangabe

1 A 'mysterious malady' - or a 'perfect storm'? 2 The flu: a news
perspective 3 Counting the ill and the dead 4 'Managing' the crisis 5 The
doctors' view: medical puzzle, politics and the search for cures 6
Hospitals and other institutions: coping with crises 7 Dying and surviving:
eye witnesses 8 Influenza as a political tool 9 Epilogue: the long
aftermath Index