The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

by Chase, Marilyn
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ISBN: 9780375757082
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The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today's headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city's Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Chase, Marilyn
  • ISBN: 9780375757082
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 304
  • Publication Year: 2004

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