- Description
- xiv, 337 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I: An abrupt introduction to Spanish influenza -- The great shadow -- Part 2: Spanish influenza: The first wave--spring and summer, 1918 -- The advance of the influenza virus -- Three explosions--Africa, Europe, and America -- Part 3: The second and third waves -- The United States begins to take note -- Spanish influenza sweeps the country -- Flu in Philadelphia -- Flu in San Francisco -- Flu at sea on the voyage to France -- Flu and the American expeditionary force -- Flu and the Paris Peace Conference -- Part 4: Measurements, research, conclusions, and confusions -- Statistics, definitions, and speculation -- Samoa and Alaska -- Research, frustration, and the isolation of the virus -- Where did the Flu of 1918 go? -- Part 5: Afterword -- An inquiry into the peculiarities of human memory.
- Call Number
- ILH 05-5483
- ISBN
- 0521833949 (hardback)
- 0521541751 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2003053176
- OCLC
- 52312428
- Author
Crosby, Alfred W.
- Title
America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby.
- Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2003.
- Edition
2nd ed.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
ILH 05-5483