Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 by Powell, J. H.

Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812214239)

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Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 by Powell, J. H.

Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

$34.95
Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 by Powell, J. H.

Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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In 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.

Author: J. H. Powell
ISBN-10: 0812214234
ISBN-13: 9780812214239
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1993
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback
Weight: 13.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
By J. H. Powell
By J. H. Powell
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John Harvey Powell (1914-1971) graduated from Swarthmore College and earned his Ph.D. degree in American History at the University of Iowa. Kenneth R. Foster is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Mary F. Jenkins is a Supervisory Park Ranger and Supervisor of the Dolley Todd Madison House and Visitor Center at Independence National Historical Park. Anna Coxe Toogood is Park Historian at Independence National Historical Park.

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