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EBOOK American Pandemic:The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199811519
EAN: 8747F46CEB
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Stron: 304
Data wydania: 2012
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Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst        pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half        a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event        seems but a forgotten moment in the United States.American Pandemic offers a        much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It sheds        light on the social and cultural history of Americans during the pandemic,        uncovering both the causes of the nation's public amnesia and the depth of the quiet        remembering that endured. Focused on the primary players in this drama--patients and        their families, friends, and community, public health experts, and health care        professionals--historian Nancy K. Bristow draws on multiple perspectives to        highlight the complex interplay between social identity, cultural norms, memory, and        the epidemic. Bristow has combed a wealth of primary sources, including letters,        diaries, oral histories, memoirs, novels, newspapers, magazines, photographs,        government documents, and health care literature. She shows that though the pandemic        caused massive disruption in the most basic patterns of American life, influenza did        not create long-term social or cultural change, serving instead to reinforce the        status quo and the differences and disparities that defined American life.As the        crisis waned the pandemic slipped from the nation's public memory. The helplessness        and despair Americans had suffered during the pandemic, Bristow notes, was a story        poorly suited to a nation focused on optimism and progress. For countless survivors,        though, the trauma never ended, shadowing the remainder of their lives with memories        of loss. This book lets us hear these long-silent voices, reclaiming an important        chapter in the American past.

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