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Black Death
Author | : Robert S. Gottfried |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439118469 |
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A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by rat fleas brought on an ecological reign of terror -- killing one European in three, wiping out entire villages and towns, and rocking the foundation of medieval society and civilization.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 1036 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9354307531 |
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
The Complete History of the Black Death
Author | : Ole Jørgen Benedictow |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 1058 |
Release | : 2021-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783275168 |
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Completely revised and updated for this new edition, Benedictow's acclaimed study remains the definitive account of the Black Death and its impact on history. The first edition of The Black Death collected and analysed the many local studies on the disease published in a variety of languages and examined a range of scholarly papers. The medical and epidemiological characteristics of the disease, its geographical origin, its spread across Asia Minor, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and the mortality in the countries and regions for which there are satisfactory studies, are clearly presented and thoroughly discussed. The pattern, pace and seasonality of spread revealed through close scrutiny of these studies exactly reflect current medical work and standard studies on the epidemiology of bubonic plague. Benedictow's findings made it clear that the true mortality rate was far higher than had been previously thought. In the light of those findings, the discussion in the last part of the book showing the Black Death as a turning point in history takes on a new significance. OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.
The Black Death 1346 1353
Author | : Ole Jørgen Benedictow |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843832140 |
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The first paperback edition of this unique and shocking guide to the Black Death in Europe.
The Great Mortality
Author | : John Kelly |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2005-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780060006921 |
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Chronicles the Great Plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century, documenting the experiences of people who lived during its height while describing the harrowing decline of moral boundaries that also marked the period. 40,000 first printing.
The Black Death
Author | : Philip Ziegler |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780571287116 |
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Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe's population. Philip Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and its dramatic effect on the lives of those whom it afflicted. First published nearly forty years ago, it remains definitive. 'The clarity and restraint on every page produce a most potent cumulative effect.' Michael Foot
The Black Death in the Middle East
Author | : Michael Walters Dols |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2019-01-29 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780691196688 |
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In the middle of the fourteenth century a devastating epidemic of plague, commonly known in European history as the "Black Death," swept over the Eurasian continent. This book, based principally on Arabic sources, establishes the means of transmission and the chronology of the plague pandemic's advance through the Middle East. The prolonged reduction of population that began with the Black Death was of fundamental significance to the social and economic history of Egypt and Syria in the later Middle Ages. The epidemic's spread suggests a remarkable destruction of human life in the fourteenth century, and a series of plague recurrences appreciably slowed population growth in the following century and a half, impoverishing Middle Eastern society. Social reactions illustrate the strength of traditional Muslim values and practices, social organization, and cohesiveness. The sudden demographic decline brought about long-term as well as immediate economic adjustments in land values, salaries, and commerce. Michael W. Dols is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Hayward. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The World the Plague Made
Author | : James Belich |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691215662 |
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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe’s global expansion. James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand—and plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new “crew culture” of “disposable males” emerged to man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.
Doctoring the Black Death
Author | : John Aberth |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442223912 |
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This engrossing book provides a comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death. John Aberth has translated plague treatises that illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge, including doctors’ personal anecdotes as they desperately struggled to understand a deadly new disease.
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
Author | : David Herlihy |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1997-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674744233 |
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Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a distinguished scholar's masterly synthesis of diverse materials, reveals that the Black Death can be considered the cornerstone of the transformation of Europe.
In the Wake of the Plague
Author | : Norman F. Cantor |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476797748 |
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The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.
Encyclopedia of the Black Death
Author | : Joseph P. Byrne Ph.D. |
Publsiher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2012-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781598842548 |
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This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors. • 300 A–Z interdisciplinary entries on medical matters and historical issues • Each entry includes up-to-date resources for further research
Biology of Plagues
Author | : Susan Scott,Christopher J. Duncan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2001-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781139432306 |
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The threat of unstoppable plagues, such as AIDS and Ebola, is always with us. In Europe, the most devastating plagues were those from the Black Death pandemic in the 1300s to the Great Plague of London in 1665. For the last 100 years, it has been accepted that Yersinia pestis, the infective agent of bubonic plague, was responsible for these epidemics. This book combines modern concepts of epidemiology and molecular biology with computer-modelling. Applying these to the analysis of historical epidemics, the authors show that they were not, in fact, outbreaks of bubonic plague. Biology of Plagues offers a completely new interdisciplinary interpretation of the plagues of Europe and establishes them within a geographical, historical and demographic framework. This fascinating detective work will be of interest to readers in the social and biological sciences, and lessons learnt will underline the implications of historical plagues for modern-day epidemiology.
Black Death at the Golden Gate The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
Author | : David K. Randall |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393609462 |
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A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable—or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread—the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.
The Black Death
Author | : John Aberth |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : Black Death |
ISBN | : 0199937982 |
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"A higher education history book on the Black Death, giving not just a narrative account but also a thorough examination of the latest forensic, historical, and DNA evidence to date"--