The Great Plague : a people's history /

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Great Plague that swept through the British Isles in 1665-66, Evelyn Lord focuses not on London but on the city of Cambridge, where every death was a singular blow which affected the entire community.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lord, Evelyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
University of Cambridge > History.
University of Cambridge
Plague > England > Cambridge > History.
Plague > history
Peste > Angleterre > Cambridge > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Plague
Pest
Cambridge (England) > History.
Engla
England > Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge (Grande-Bretagne)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The black horse of the apocalypse and its pale rider
  • Fine buildings and bad smells
  • Town and gown
  • Impending disaster
  • The infected summer
  • Falling leaves and sable skies
  • A rash of red crosses
  • A harvest of death
  • The beginning of the end of the pestilence
  • The final toll.

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