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Description
Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in the United States.
Product Details
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publish Date | April 30, 2012 |
Pages | 304 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780199811342 |
Dimensions | 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches | 1.1 pounds |
About the Author
Nancy K. Bristow is Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of Making Men Moral: Social Engineering during the Great War. Bristow is the great-granddaughter of two of the pandemic's fatalities.
Reviews
"Now among the best of the post-Second World War publications on the great pandemic of the First World War is American Pandemic. Among her book's virtues is its voluminous bibliography stretching for pages and pages which ranks as essential for all students of the subject." --Journal of the History of Medicine"Building on Alfred Crosby's ground-breaking study, as well as an incredible amount of original research, this work on the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic offers a personal, professional, and official account of how Americans came to grips with la grippe, while also reflecting on how the nation's collective memory has been shaped by ignoring this tragedy. A rewarding read and highly recommended." --Historian"[An] excellent social and cultural history of the outbreak. Bristow's work is thoroughly researched. Each chapter draws on a significant number of government records, medical journals, and newspaper articles of the time as well as letters, notes, and diary entries. The result is another fine addition to the recent scholarship of this important event in American history." --Journal of American History"This readable and compelling account explains the role of race, gender and class, promotion of physical fitness and public education, and America's public health strategy during the influenza epidemics in 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1922. Bristow's work distinguishes itself with her emphasis on influenza epidemics beyond 1918-1919, the roles of physicians and nurses, the importance of public health nursing, and the personal revelation that she lost great-grandparents due to influenza." --Doody's Book Reviews
"[A]n intimate account of the individual and private sufferings of millions of Americans. Based on solid, comprehensive research, the volume is readable and vivid in language and example...[T]he author breathes life into stories of death...An impressive and important book for students, historians, and lay readers. Highly recommended." --CHOICE"Now among the best of the post-Second World War publications on the great pandemic of the First World War" - Alfred Crosby, Journal of the History of Medicine
and their families, including her own
"[A]n intimate account of the individual and private sufferings of millions of Americans. Based on solid, comprehensive research, the volume is readable and vivid in language and example...[T]he author breathes life into stories of death...An impressive and important book for students, historians, and lay readers. Highly recommended." --CHOICE"Now among the best of the post-Second World War publications on the great pandemic of the First World War" - Alfred Crosby, Journal of the History of Medicine
and their families, including her own
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