J. H. Powell

Bring Out Your Dead (eBook, ePUB)

The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812291179
• Artikelnr.: 41329578

Autorenporträt

J. H. Powell. Introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction to the 1993 Edition
Preface to the 1949 Edition
Acknowledgments
''A Merry, Sinful Summer''
Infection in Water Street
Fever, Domestic and Foreign
Prevention, Personal and Civic
Crisis
Panic
"This Excellent Physician"
Bush Hill
The Committee
"Sangrado"
The Fugitives
Height of the Plague October
Frost
Afterwards
Notes
Index