Black Death at the Golden Gate : : the Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague
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Call Number: 616.923 Ra
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Prologue: Fighting the devil with fire -- Across the sea -- The Nippon Maru -- The imperial city -- Criminal idiocy -- Fault lines -- Quarantine -- Oust the faker -- An infamous compact -- An impossible task -- A most peculiar team -- As soon as possible -- The unpleasant past -- For god's sake send food -- Two percent -- The worst corner of hell -- One of California's adopted sons -- Cast aside -- A hero once more -- Epilogue: how close we came.
Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393609455
0393609456
SUBJECTS
Plague -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Plague -- history.
San Francisco.