Plague and the City / edited by Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson and Christos Lynteris.

Plague and the City
Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9780429450044(e-book : PDF)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].
©2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (186 pages) : 11 illustrations, text file, PDF.
Dizi
The Body in the City
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Includes bibliographical references and index.
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction: The Plague and the City in History -- Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson and Christos Lynteris -- Chapter 1: Great Stenches, Horrible Sights and Deadly Abominations: Butchery and the Battle Against Plague in Late Medieval English Towns -- Carole Rawcliffe -- Chapter 2: Plague in Early Modern London: Chronologies, Localities, and Environments -- Vanessa Harding -- Chapter 3: Filth is the Mother of Corruption: Plague and the Built Environment in Early Modern Florence -- John Henderson -- Chapter 4: Plague Views: Epidemics, Photography, and the Ruined City -- Robert Peckham -- Chapter 5: The Disease Map and the City: Desire and Imitation in the Bombay Plague, 1896-1914 -- Nicholas H. A. Evans -- Chapter 6: A Source of Sickness. Photographic Mapping of the Plague in Honolulu in 1900 -- Lukas Engelmann -- Chapter 7: Public Culture and the Spectacle of Epidemic Disease in Rabat and Casablanca -- Branwyn Poleykett.
Özet, vb.
Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval,early modern and modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to prevent or limit the outbreak of epidemic disease.Bringing together leading scholars of plague working across different historical periods, this book provides an inter-disciplinary study of plague in the city across time and space. The chapters cover a wide range of periods, geographical locations and disciplinary approaches but all seek to answer significant questions, including whether common motives can be identified, and how far knowledge about plague was based on an understanding of the urban space. It also examines how maps and photographs contribute to understanding plague in the city through exploring the ways in which the relationship between plague and the urban environment has been visualised, from the poisoned darts of plague winging their way towards their victims in the votive pictures from the Renaissance, to the mapping of the spread of disease in late nineteenth-century Bombay and photographing Honolulu’s great plague fire in 1900. Containing a series of studies that illuminate plague’s urban connection as a key social and political concern throughout history, Plague and the City is ideal for students of early modern history, and of the early modern city and plague more specifically.
Konu
HISTORY / Asia / China. __ bisacsh
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. __ bisacsh
Anti-plague Measures. __ bisacsh
Anti-plague Policies. __ bisacsh
bacteriological. __ bisacsh
bubonic plague. __ bisacsh
cities. __ bisacsh
dirt. __ bisacsh
disease. __ bisacsh
early modern. __ bisacsh
ecological. __ bisacsh
epidemic. __ bisacsh
Florence. __ bisacsh
Hong Kong. __ bisacsh
housing. __ bisacsh
India. __ bisacsh
London. __ bisacsh
maps. __ bisacsh
medieval. __ bisacsh
poverty, stench, housing and dirt. __ bisacsh
social. __ bisacsh
stench. __ bisacsh
USA. __ bisacsh
urban environment. __ bisacsh
urban life. __ bisacsh
urban space. __ bisacsh
Plague __ History.
Plague __ Prevention.
Public health __ History.
Electronic books.
Diğer Yazarlar
Engelmann, Lukas
Henderson, John
Lynteris, Christos
Kurum Adı
Taylor and Francis.
Veritabanı
Taylor & Francis
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