Title:
The Spanish flu epidemic and its influence on history : stories from the 1918-1920 global flu pandemic / Jaime Breitnauer.
ISBN:
9781526745170
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire ; Havertown, PA : Pen & Sword History, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2019.
Physical Description:
xiii, 136 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The second Monday in March : origin theories and the trail left by disease -- Europe, America and the alliances of war : the effect of the pandemic on the countries in conflict -- Movement, trade and the victims of colonization : exposure to the virus beyond Europe -- Secrets in the snow : what have we learned in 100 years?
Summary:
On the second Monday of March 1918, the world changed forever. What seemed like a harmless cold morphed into a global pandemic that would wipe out as many as a hundred-million people - ten times as many as the Great War. German troops faltered lending the allies the winning advantage, India turned its sights to independence while South Africa turned to God. In Western Samoa a quarter of the population died; in some parts of Alaska, whole villages were wiped out. Civil unrest sparked by influenza shaped nations and heralded a new era of public health where people were no longer blamed for contracting disease. Using real case histories, we take a journey through the world in 1918, and look at the impact of Spanish flu on populations from America, to France, to the Arctic, and the scientific legacy this deadly virus has left behind.
OCLC Number:
on1104659114
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
