The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris, Honigsbaum Mark

Автор: Honigsbaum Mark
Название: Pandemic Century
ISBN: 1787381218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787381216
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Описание: A smart and lively journey through a century of pandemics, from the Spanish flu to Zika.

Автор: Mark Honigsbaum
Название: A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920
ISBN: 1350160083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350160088
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the history of influenza in the period, and describes how the fear of disease permeated Victorian culture. These fears were amplified by the invention of the telegraph and the ability of the new mass-market press to whip up public hysteria. The flu was therefore a barometer of wider fin de siecle social and cultural anxieties - playing on fears engendered by economic decline, technology, urbanisation and degeneration. A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history and the history of the media.