The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919 (eBook, PDF)

A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World
Redaktion: Codera, Maximiliano Fuentes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Within the framework of a global political and sanitarian crisis that broke out in March 2020, this book proposes a new contemporary look at the great pandemic of the 20th century, the Spanish flu of 1918-1919.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000987027
• Artikelnr.: 68866441

Autorenporträt

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera is professor of Contemporary History in the University of Girona, Spain, where he leads the Chair Walter Benjamin, Memory and Exile. He has been visiting lecturer in several international universities. He is specialist in political and intellectual history in Europe and Spain in the 20th century. He has focused a significant part of his works on the impact of the First World War in Spain and Neutral Countries and the right-wing movements and Fascism in Europe. His latest books are Spain and Argentina in the First World War. Transnational Neutralities (Routledge, 2021) and Continental Transfers. Cultural and Political Exchanges among Spain, Italy and Argentina 1914-1945 (2022, edited with Patrizia Dogliani).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera

2. Spain and the impact of the 1918 influenza: from the Great War to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera

3. The Flu of 1918 Seen by Health Intellectuals in Spain

Joaquim M. Puigvert i Solà

4. The 1918 flu in Barcelona and Catalonia: borders, social emergency and "regionalist fever"

Pau Font Masdeu

5. The 1918-19 pandemic in Portugal: memory and forgetting

José Manuel Sobral

6. The "Spanish" flu: the Italian case

Patrizia Dogliani

7. Sick Latin America. Intellectual Interventions on Latin American Condemnations and Failures, 1898-1930

Paula Bruno

8. The Awareness of Death: Portraits and Literary Memories of the 1918 Flu

Francesc Montero

9. The Role of the Experts in the Time of a Pandemic. The case of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Argentina

Laura Palermo

10. Fascism, populism and disease. From the traces of the 1918 flu to COVID-19

Federico Finchelstein