The Great Plague : The Story of London's Most Deadly Year

Annotation In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending "horrible windes and tempests." And in the remote, squalid precinct of St. Giles-in-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moote, A. Lloyd
Otros Autores: Moote, Dorothy C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Plague.
Epidemics.
Peste > Angleterre > Histoire.
Épidemies > Angleterre > Histoire.
Peste > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Plague > England > History.
Epidemics > England > History.
Plague > England > London > History > 17th century.
England > London.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Contents"; "List of Illustrations"; "List of Tables"; "Preface"; "Prologue"; "PART I: Beginnings"; "1. Winter, 1664-1665"; "2. The Other London"; "3. Signs and Sources"; "PART II: Confusion"; "4. Fleeing or Staying?"; "5. The Medical Marketplace"; "6. Plague's Progress"; "PART III: The Abyss"; "7. The Doctors Stumble"; "8. Business Not as Usual"; "9. Requiem for London"; "10. Contagion in the Countryside"; "PART IV: Surviving"; "11. The Web of Authority"; "12. Not by Bread Alone"; "13. The Awakening"; "Epilogue Of Once and Future Plagues."
  • "APPENDIX A. Bills of Mortality for Greater London"; "APPENDIX B. Parish Records of Saint Margaret Westminster"; "APPENDIX C. Parish Records of Saint Giles Cripplegate"; "APPENDIX D. The Three Plague Pandemics"; "Notes"; "Acknowledgments"; "Index"; "A"; "B"; "C"; "D"; "E"; "F"; "G"; "H"; "I"; "J"; "K"; "L"; "M"; "N"; "O"; "P"; "Q"; "R"; "S"; "T"; "U"; "V"; "W"; "Y."

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