America's Forgotten Pandemic The Influenza of 1918

Name: America's Forgotten Pandemic The Influenza of 1918
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ISBN: 9780521541756

ISBN-10: 0521541751

ISBN-13: 9780521541756

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Alfred W. Crosby

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Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. In a new edition, with a new preface discussing the recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu and the SARS epidemic, America's Forgotten Pandemic remains…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




An Abrupt Introduction to Spanish Influenza



The great shadow



Spanish Influenza: The First Wave - Spring and Summer, 1918



The advance of the influenza virus



Three explosions - Africa, Europe, and America



The Second and Third Waves



The United States begins to take note



Spanish Influenza sweeps the country



Flu in Philadelphia



Flu in San Francisco



Flu at sea on voyage to France



Flu and the American expeditionary force



Flu and the Paris Peace Conference



Measurements, Research, Conclusions, and Confusions



Statistics, definitions, and speculations



Samoa and Alaska



Research, frustration, and the isolation of the virus



Where did the flu of 1918 go?



Afterword



An inquiry in the peculiarities of human memory