Plague Ports : The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901 / Myron Echenberg.
Echenberg, Myron, author.
2007
RA644.P7 E34 2007
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Title Plague Ports : The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901 / Myron Echenberg.
Author Echenberg, Myron, author.
ISBN 9780814722824
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814722824.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814722824.001.0001 doi
Call Number RA644.P7 E34 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.5732
Summary A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three "pearls" of the Pacific; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in South America; Alexandria and Cape Town in Africa; and Oporto in Europe.Myron Echenberg examines plague's impact in each of these cities, on the politicians, the medical and public health authorities, and especially on the citizenry, many of whom were recent migrants crammed into grim living spaces. He looks at how different cultures sought to cope with the challenge of deadly epidemic disease, and explains the political, racial, and medical ineptitudes and ignorance that allowed the plague to flourish. The forces of globalization and industrialization, Echenberg argues, had so increased the transmission of microorganisms that infectious disease pandemics were likely, if not inevitable.This fascinating, expansive history, enlivened by harrowing photographs and maps of each city, sheds light on urbanism and modernity at the turn of the century, as well as on glaring public health inequalities. With the recent outbreaks of SARS and avian flu, and ongoing fears of bioterrorism, Plague Ports offers a necessary and timely historical lesson.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Illustrations
part 1. Belle Époque and Bubonic Plague¹
part 2. Asian Beginnings
1. An Unexampled Calamity
2. City of the Plague
part 3. Plague at the Doors of Europe
3. The Plague Has at Last Arrived
4. They Have a Love of Clean Underlinen and of Fresh Air
part 4. South American Settings
5. A Bubonic Plague Epidemic Does Not Exist in This Country Buenos Aires, 1900
6. The Victory of Hygiene, Good Taste, and Art
part 5. Plague under the Stars and Stripes
7. Plague in Paradise
8. Black Plague Creeps into America
part 6. Plague under the Union Jack
9. The Inhabitants of Sydney No More Go Barefoot Than Do the Inhabitants of London
10. It Is a Miracle We Are Not Visited by a Black Plague
part 7. Plague's Lessons
Appendix
Notes
Index
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