Plague Ports : the Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901.

A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first s...

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Main Author: Echenberg, Myron J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2007.
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