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The Spanish Flu : Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918 / by R. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Ryan A., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History, Modern.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Social history.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- Cultural History.
- History of Medicine.
- Local Subjects:
- European History.
- Modern History.
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- Cultural History.
- History of Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread.
- Contents:
- Introduction: epidemic genre and spanish flu narrative(s)
- A mundane mystery: framing the flu in the first epidemic wave
- Of borders and bodies: the second wave begins
- A tale of two states: between an epidemic and a sanitary Spain
- Figuring (out) the epidemic: Don Juan and Spanish influenza
- Visualizing the Spanish flu nation: citizens, characters, and cartoons
- Conclusion: a telling epidemic, a storied nation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349464395
- 1349464392
- 9781137339218
- 1137339217
- OCLC:
- 868957297
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