The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312677084)

Documents from period newspapers, medical journals, government publications, letters, journal entries, memoirs, and novels are collected to present a full picture of the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which took the lives of at least 30 million people worldwide in Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919.

Author: Susan K. Kent
ISBN-10: 0312677081
ISBN-13: 9780312677084
Publisher: Bedford Books
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2012
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.40d

About the Author
Susan Kingsley Kent (Ph.D., Brandeis University) is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Specializing in British history, her scholarly works focus on gender, politics, empire, and the Great War. She is the author of Gender and History; Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931; Gender and Power in Britain, 1660-1990; Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain; Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914; The History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach; and, with Misty L. Bastian and Marc Matera, The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria.