Tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the third bubonic plague.
AcknowledgmentsPreface Illustrations Part 1: Belle Epoque and Bubonic PlaguePart 2: Asian Beginnings 1 An Unexampled Calamity: Hong Kong, 1894 2 City of the Plague: Bombay, 1896 Part 3: Plague at the Doors of Europe 3 The Plague Has at Last Arrived: Alexandria, 1899 4 They Have a Love of Clean Underlinen and of Fresh Air: Porto, 1899 Part 4: South American Settings5 A Bubonic Plague Epidemic Does Not Exist in This Country: Buenos Aires, 1900 6 The Victory of Hygiene, Good Taste, and Art: Rio de Janeiro, 1900 Part 5: Plague under the Stars and Stripes 7 Plague in Paradise: Honolulu, 1899/1900 8 Black Plague Creeps into America: San Francisco, 1900/1901 Part 6: Plague under the Union Jack 9 The Inhabitants of Sydney No More Go Barefoot Than Do the Inhabitants of London: Sydney, 1900 10 It Is a Miracle We Are Not Visited by a Black Plague: Cape Town, 1901 Part 7: Plague's Lessons AppendixNotes Index About the Author
Myron Echenberg is professor of history at McGill University. He is the author of Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945 and Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960.
"Echenberg's richly textured and deeply discerning account of the last plague pandemic is, as he points out, a cautionary tale of the politics of disease control in a globalized world. It should become compulsory reading for all who are engaged in the construction of the new discipline of global public health." New England Journal of Medicine "Provides an in-depth look at the ineffectiveness of certain public health disease control measures such as quarantine, isolation of patient contacts, and the importance of using knowledge of the pathogen's disease ecology for the development and implementation of effective control measures." International Journal of African Historical Studies "Well written and fluent in narrating its stories, this work can provide good reading not only for historians and students specializing in medicine, but for a wider public as well." Journal of World History "Plague Ports highlights how international trade had connected ports in different continents by the end of the nineteenth century, with the potential to transform local epidemics into global pandemics." Journal of African History "[Echenberg] does an excellent job of presenting complex political and social consequences of the plague." Choice, Recommended "An extensive comparative study." Science News "An intriguing study that looks at the global impact that bubonic place had in urban areas." History in Review
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