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Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague 1894-1901
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Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague 1894-1901. By Myron Echenberg. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 30 illustrations. $48.00.
Epidemics of plague have been responsible for substantial mortality and adverse socioeconomic effects during the course of recorded human history. The third bubonic plague pandemic took an estimated 15 million lives as it circled the globe in the late nineteenth century. In Plague Ports, Myron Echenberg has provided a fasci...
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