Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster

by John T. Alexander

Book Overview

John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia. Bubonic Plauge in Early Modern Russia makes contributions to many aspects of Russian and European history: social, economic, medical, urban, demographic, and meterological. It is particularly enlightening in its discussion of eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195158180
• ISBN13: 9780195158182
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"