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Article: Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague 1894-1901.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2008
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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, 2C07. xvi plus 347 pp. $24.00 PB).
This is a nicely written example of old-style medical history co-joined with an attempt to correlate a particular type of disease happenings--epidemics and near-epidemics of bubonic plague--to new-style social and cultural history. Echenburg's efforts can be judged to be most satisfactory when he deals with case-study examples from those parts of the world for which he has conducted extensive archival research (sub-Saharan Africa) or which were found on the Continent of North America where be ...