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The Great Plague : a people's history
- Title
- The Great Plague : a people's history / Evelyn Lord.
- Author
- Lord, Evelyn.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-5305 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 173 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range of individuals, from historical notables Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton to common folk who tilled the land and ran the shops. She brings this dark era to vivid life through stories of loss and survival from those who grieved, those who fled, and those who hid to await their fate.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Black Horse of the Apocalypse and its pale rider -- 2. Fine buildings and bad smells -- 3. Town and gown -- 4. Impending disaster -- 5. The infected summer -- 6. Falling leaves and sable skies -- 7. A rash of red crosses -- 8. A harvest of death -- 9. The beginning of the end of the pestilence -- 10. The final toll.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5305
- ISBN
- 9780300173819
- 0300173814
- LCCN
- 2013041977
- OCLC
- 861322969
- Author
- Lord, Evelyn.
- Title
- The Great Plague : a people's history / Evelyn Lord.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5305