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Book Audiobook 2019

Black Death at the Golden Gate

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Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Published
2019
  • Plague
  • San francisco (calif.), history
  • West (u.s.), history
  • Epidemiology
  • History
  • Quarantine
  • Epidemics
  • Prevention & control

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.