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Author: Cindy Ermus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1108489540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA transnational history of the 1720 French plague epidemic and its ramifications in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world.
Author: Cindy Ermus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 110880926X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as well as new understandings about the nature of contagion and the best ways to manage its threat. In this transnational study, Cindy Ermus focuses on the social, commercial, and diplomatic impact of the epidemic beyond French borders, examining reactions to this public health crisis from Italy to Great Britain to Spain and the overseas colonies. She reveals how a crisis in one part of the globe can transcend geographic boundaries and influence society, politics, and public health policy in regions far from the epicentre of disaster.
Author: Cindy Ermus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1009007084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Murphy
Publisher:
Published: 2024-04-24
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1009233823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague of Provence in the 1720s represented the development of a new and 'modern' form of public health care under the control of the absolutist monarchy, it shows that the key elements in this system were established centuries earlier because of the actions of urban governments. It moves away from taking a medical focus on plague to examine the institutions that managed disease control in early modern France. In doing so, it seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s. It shows that the French developed a polycentric system of plague care which drew on the input of numerous actors combat the disease.
Author: Yaron Ayalon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107072972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.
Author: Lori Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0429619294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds explores the intertwined relationships between humans, the natural and manmade environments, and disease. Urgency gives us a sense that we need a longer view of human responses and interactions with the airs, waters, and places in which we live, and a greater understanding of the activities and attitudes that have led us to the present. Through a series of new research studies, two salient questions are explored: What are the deeper patterns in thinking about disease and the environment? What can we know about the environmental and ecological parameters of emergent human diseases over a longer period – aspects of disease that contemporary persons were not able to know or understand in the way that we do today? The broad chronological and geographical approach makes this volume perfect for students and scholars interested in the history of disease, environment, and landscape in the medieval and early modern worlds.
Author: Alex Chase-Levenson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-16
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108485545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.
Author: Kathleen Miller
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1137510579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague. This book examines the role of print and manuscript cultures on representations of the disease through micro-histories and case studies of writing from that time, interpreting the place of these media and the construction of authorship during the outbreak. The macabre history of plague in early modern England largely ended with the Great Plague of London, and the miscellany of plague writings that responded to the epidemic forms the subject of this book.
Author: Jacob Steere-Williams
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2023-12-14
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 164336457X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long transatlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic scope, the scholars contributing to this volume call for a sea-facing history of the South, one that connects that terrestrial region to this expansive maritime history. By bringing the study up to the 20th century in the collection's final section, the editors Jacob Steere-Williams and Blake C. Scott make the case for the lasting influence of these port cities—and Atlantic world history—on the economy, society, and culture of the contemporary South.
Author: John Trenchard
Publisher:
Published: 1748
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
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