Crosby, Alfred W.
Cambridge [England] New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1989.
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• Reprint, with new pref. Originally published: Epidemic and peace, 1918. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Part I. An Abrupt Introduction to Spanish Influenza: 1. The great shadow Part II. Spanish Influenza: The First Wave — Spring and Summer, 1918: 2. The advance of the influenza virus 3. Three explosions — Africa, Europe, and America Part III. The Second and Third Waves: 4. The United States begins to take note 5. Spanish Influenza sweeps the country 6. Flu in Philadelphia 7. Flu in San Francisco 8. Flu at sea on voyage to France 9. Flu and the American expeditionary force 10. Flu and the Paris Peace Conference Part IV. Measurements, Research, Conclusions, and Confusions: 11. Statistics, definitions, and speculations 12. Samoa and Alaska 13. Research, frustration, and the isolation of the virus 14. Where did the flu of 1918 go? Part V. Afterword 15. An inquiry in the peculiarities of human memory.
• 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 … [The author] recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-striken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. (Excerpt).

Subjects:

• Influenza — History.
• Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
• Influenza, Human — United States — History.
• Grippe — Histoire.
• Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) fast (OCoLC)fst01754995
• USA. swd
• 1918 – 1919 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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