A History of the World in Six Plagues
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2025
Dialogue Books (Verlag)
978-0-349-70437-1 (ISBN)
Dialogue Books (Verlag)
978-0-349-70437-1 (ISBN)
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A History of the World in Six Plagues is a timely examination of the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics.
In a rare blend of rigorous research and truly compelling story-telling, Dr Edna Bonhomme traces the long history of viral outbreaks under conditions of social confinement-the plantation system, colonial camps, imprisonment, quarantine, factories-and reveals how these enclosed spaces fuel epidemics.
This is a book about the complicated histories of movement and stagnation, and about the time we live in, with a focus on the racialised history of several key epidemics from the impact of cholera on the plantation economy to HIV/AIDS outbreaks in US prisons.
In a rare blend of rigorous research and truly compelling story-telling, Dr Edna Bonhomme traces the long history of viral outbreaks under conditions of social confinement-the plantation system, colonial camps, imprisonment, quarantine, factories-and reveals how these enclosed spaces fuel epidemics.
This is a book about the complicated histories of movement and stagnation, and about the time we live in, with a focus on the racialised history of several key epidemics from the impact of cholera on the plantation economy to HIV/AIDS outbreaks in US prisons.
Dr. Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science and writer. Currently a research fellow at the Munich Centre for Global History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, she earned her PhD in the history of science from Princeton University and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University. She is a recipient of a Camargo Foundation Fellowship. She has written for popular press and academic journals, including Aljazeera, gal-dem, The Baffler, The Guardian, The Nation, Africa is a Country and The New Republic.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-349-70437-6 / 0349704376 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-349-70437-1 / 9780349704371 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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