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Pale Rider

eBook - The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

Erschienen am 01.06.2017, 1. Auflage 2017
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ISBN/EAN: 9781473523920
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 352 S., 15.21 MB
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Beschreibung

'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story...Pale Rideris not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past'Guardian

With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 19181920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.

InPale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.

Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant if not more so as two world wars in shaping the modern world; in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts.

Autorenportrait

Laura Spinney is a science journalist and a literary novelist. She is the author of two novels and her writing on science has appeared in National Geographic, Nature, The Economist and The Telegraph, among others. Born in the UK, she has also lived in France and Switzerland.

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