Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made Upon the Bills of Mortality
Author: John Graunt
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Published: 1662
Total Pages: 85
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Natural and Political Observations Made Upon the Bills of Mortality
Author: John 1620-1674 Graunt
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Published: 2021-09-10
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781015063822
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Bills of Mortality
Author: Patrick Reilly
Publisher: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433124228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"'Bills of Mortality' explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' to Tony Kushner's 'Angels in America'. -- Back cover.
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
Author: Rebecca Totaro
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1136963235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in plague-time plays; the poignant prose works of William Bullein and Thomas Dekker; the bodies of monarchs who sought to protect themselves from plague; the chameleon-like nature of the plague as literal disease and as metaphor; and future strains of plague, literary and otherwise, which we may face in the globally-minded, technology-dependent, and ecologically-awakened twenty-first century. The bubonic plague compelled change in all aspects of lived experience in Early Modern England, but at the same time, it opened space for writers to explore new ideas and new literary forms—not all of them somber or horrifying and some of them downright hilarious. By representing the plague for their audiences, these writers made an epidemic calamity intelligible: for them, the dreaded disease could signify despair but also hope, bewilderment but also a divine plan, quarantine but also liberty, death but also new life.
The Impact of COVID-19 on India and the Global Order
Author: Mousumi Dutta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-02-18
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9811684723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the many socio-economic challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic across international boundaries, disrupting the economic system and life styles globally. It starts by setting the historical context of the pandemic and proceeds to describe the impact on the Indian economy, how certain sections of the population have become economically and psychologically vulnerable. International experts from diverse fields—development economics, macroeconomics, corporate finance, history, sociology, psychology, public policy, and urban studies—contribute to this exciting analysis of an Indian and global society at the crossroads. The book examines emerging themes related to global economic revival, intellectual property rights over the vaccine, and rupturing of the global supply chains. It discusses the response of institutions and markets to the global pandemic. It closes with a futuristic look at the new society and global system that may emerge out of the chaos. A valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and academic teachers, and also public policy experts.
Bills of Mortality
Author: William Alfred Brend
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1465590846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650-1750
Author: Craig Spence
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1783271353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. While this figure includes around 3,000 who were murdered or committed suicide, the vast majority of fatalities resulted from unexplained violent deaths or accidents. In the early modern period, accidental and "disorderly" deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, and animals and vehicles, among others - were a regular feature of urban life. This book is a critical study of the early modern accident. Drawing on the weekly London Bills of Mortality, parish burial registers, newspapers and other related documents, it examines accidents and other forms of violent death in the city with a view to understanding who among its residents encountered such events, how the bureaucracy recorded and elaborated their circumstances and why they did so, and what practical responses might follow. Additionally, the book explores the way in which these events were transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life and how sudden deaths were understood by early modern mentalities. By the mid-eighteenth century, providential explanations were giving way to a more "mechanically" rational view that saw accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained."--
London, a Social History
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780674538399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Death and the Metropolis
Author: John Landers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-07-08
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0521355990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The evidence indicates that mortality in London was generally much higher than in other settlements in England.
Mortality, with Friends
Author: Fleda Brown
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0814348750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of intensely personal lyrical essays about mortality, living well, art, and love. Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer could return. Memoir in feel, the book muses on the nature of art, of sculpture, of the loss of bees and trees, the end of marriages, and among other things, the loss of hearing and of life itself. Containing twenty-two essays, Mortality, With Friends follows the cascade of loss with the author's imminent joy in opening a path to track her own growing awareness and wisdom. In "Donna," Brown examines a childhood friendship and questions the roles we need to play in each other's lives to shape who we might become. In "Native Bees," Brown expertly weaves together the threads of a difficult family tradition intended to incite happiness with the harsh reality of current events. In "Fingernails, Toenails," she marvels at the attention and suffering that accompanies caring for our aging bodies. In "Mortality, with Friends," Brown dives into the practical and stupefying response to her own cancer and survival. In "2019: Becoming Mrs. Ramsay," she remembers the ghosts of her family and the strident image of herself, positioned in front of her Northern Michigan cottage. Comparable to Lia Purpura's essays in their density and poetics, Brown's intent is to look closely, to stay with the moment and the image. Readers with a fondness for memoir and appreciation for art will be dazzled by the beauty of this collection.
