Horrors of History: People of the Plague
Title | Horrors of History: People of the Plague PDF eBook |
Author | T. Neill Anderson |
Publisher | Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | 161 |
Release | 2014-10-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1607345420 |
Well-researched and rich with ghastly details, this third historical fiction novel in the Horrors of History series is based on the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Actual and fictionalized victims and survivors, like the young, heroic Barium and the concerned, wise Doctor Wilmer Krusen, help weave together a gripping account of how Philadelphia coped with the outbreak.
The Great Plague
Title | The Great Plague PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Lord |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2006 |
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The Horrors of the Bubonic Plague
Title | The Horrors of the Bubonic Plague PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Throp |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 49 |
Release | 2017-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1484641752 |
Explore the history of the bubonic plague, from causes and effects to what made this period of history so deadly.
Plagues and Peoples
Title | Plagues and Peoples PDF eBook |
Author | William McNeill |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2010-10-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307773663 |
The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Plagues and Peoples is "a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is essential reading—that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening.
The Black Death
Title | The Black Death PDF eBook |
Author | John Hatcher |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | 558 |
Release | 2010-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1458782174 |
In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived - and died - during the Black Death (1345 - 50 AD), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and describes in fascinating detail the day-to-day existence of people struggling with the tragic effects of the plague. Dramatic scenes portray how contemporaries must have experienced and thought about the momentous events - and how they tried to make sense of it all.
The Horror of the Bubonic Plague
Title | The Horror of the Bubonic Plague PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Throp |
Publisher | Raintree |
Total Pages | 50 |
Release | 2018-10-04 |
Genre | Plague |
ISBN | 1474749410 |
Explore the history of the bubonic plague, from causes and effects to what made this period of history so deadly.
The Black Death
Title | The Black Death PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Griffin |
Publisher | Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2019-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1538241293 |
The Black Death sounds like the name of a creepy movie, but it was an actual historical event. It was the term for the pandemic of plague throughout Europe and Asia in the 14th century. Before it was over, tens of millions of people had died. Readers will be enthralled to learn of the disturbing details of this gruesome disease and how it spread. They'll learn how people coped, how the world changed, and that plague still exists. Historical images and maps help support the engrossing information in this comprehensible look at an important time in history.