Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
J. H. Powell, Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, Anna Coxe ToogoodIn 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.
Year:
2014
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Language:
english
Pages:
334
ISBN 10:
0812291174
ISBN 13:
9780812291179
File:
PDF, 18.03 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2014