Cindy Ermus (San Antonio University of Texas)

The Great Plague Scare of 1720

Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative new study of the transnational ramifications of the 1720 Plague of Provence in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world, situated at the nexus of the history of medicine, disaster studies, and the diplomatic history of the eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Global Health Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489546
• ISBN-10: 1108489540
• Artikelnr.: 64295666

Autorenporträt

Cindy Ermus is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Plague in Provence
2. 'L'état le plus exposé': The Plague of Provence in Genoa and Italy
3. 'A Scheme so Barbarous and so Destructive': Responses to the Plague of Provence in London
4. The Spanish Plague That Never Was: The Plague of Provence in Cádiz and Spain
5. Entangled Empires: The Great Plague Scare in the Colonies
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.