Plague: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Plague: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780198871118
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By (author) Paul Slack,

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Throughout history plague has caused some of the greatest periods of hardship for humanity, from the Black Death to the Great Plague of London. This book explores the causes of plague, the presence of plague in art and literature, and the lasting impact of the disease on how people and governments behave when threatened by epidemic crises.

SKU: 9780198871118

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ISBN: 9780198871118

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 11.2 × 0.8 × 17.5 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 160 pages
Dimensions 11.2 × 0.8 × 17.5 cm | 124
Publication Date 24 June 2021
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom
Edition 2nd Revised edition

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Paul Slack

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Paul Slack is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England, (OUP , 1990), and The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England, (OUP 2015), which won the Samuel Pepys Prize for 2015. He has been the Editor of the journal Past and Present, is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, until 2010.

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