Book 2019

Black Death at the Golden Gate

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Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Language: English
Published: 2019

Plague
San francisco (calif.), history

Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups.