America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918

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America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918

Alfred W. Crosby

Cambridge University Press, c1989

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  • : pbk

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Reprint, with new pref. Originally published: Epidemic and peace, 1918 Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976

Includes bibliographical references

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Description

Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide claiming over 25 million lives, more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-striken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event.

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  • NCID
    BA10850038
  • ISBN
    • 0521385474
    • 0521386950
  • LCCN
    89022372
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge [England] ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 337 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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