text Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague
- Summary
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Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups.
- Contents
- Prologue: Fighting the devil with fire -- Across the sea -- The Nippon Maru -- The imperial city -- Criminal idiocy -- Fault lines -- Quarantine -- Oust the faker -- An infamous compact -- An impossible task -- A most peculiar team -- As soon as p... Read more
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- Description
- 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 616.9 RAN in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| TADL-WOOD | 616.9 RAN in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 616.9 RAN in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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