The Great Plague scare of 1720 : disaster and diplomacy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Cindy Ermus.
"This book will be of interest to historians, educators, students, and anyone concerned with the history of disasters and epidemic disease. It describes the ramifications of the 1720 Plague of Provence (Marseille Plague) in some of the foremost port cities of the Atlantic world"--
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Plague in Provence
- "L'état le plus exposé": The Plague of Provence in Genoa and Italy
- "A Scheme so Barbarous and so Destructive": Responses to the Plague of Provence in London
- The Spanish Plague That Never Was: The Plague of Provence in Cádiz and Spain
- Entangled Empires: The Great Plague Scare in the Colonies.