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Article: Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901.(Book review)
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901. By Myron Echenberg (New York and London: New York University Press, 2007), pp. xvi+349. Illustrated. US$48.00.
The third plague pandemic of one hundred years ago has not received as much attention from historians as the influenza pandemic that followed the First World War. Partly this is because nearly four times as many people died in the influenza pandemic, and over a much shorter time period, but it is hard to avoid the conclusion that one of the reasons why the bubonic plague outbreak has been neglected is that most of the estimated 15 million associated deaths were in India and China. In the ...