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THE POWER OF PLAGUES
Second Edition
Irwin W. Sherman
University of California at San Diego
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sherman, Irwin W., author.
Title: The power of plagues / Irwin W. Sherman.
Description: 2nd edition. | Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2017] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017005669 (print) | LCCN 2017006703 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781683670001 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781683670018 (ebook)
doi:10.1128/9781683670018
Subjects: LCSH: Communicable diseases–History. | Epidemics–History. | Diseases and history.
Classification: LCC RA643 .S55 2017 (print) | LCC RA643 (ebook) | DDC 616.9–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017005669
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Cover: “La peste en Mandchourie” Le Petit Journal n° 1057 du 19 Fev. 1911
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Preface to the Second Edition
Plagues, the historian Asa Briggs observed, “are a dramatic unfolding of events; they are stories of discovery, reaction, conflict, illness and resolution.” They test “the efficiency and resilience of local and administrative structures” and “expose the relentlessly political, social and moral shortcomings…rumors, suspicions, and at times violent…conflicts.” This book was written to make
