Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society
- 3 Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages
- 4 Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic Society
- 5 Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy
- 6 Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British ‘public health’, 1780–1850
- 7 Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe
- 8 Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience
- 9 Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914
- 10 Plagues of beasts and men; prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa
- 11 Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic
- 12 The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981–6: historical perspectives
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society
- 3 Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages
- 4 Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic Society
- 5 Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy
- 6 Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British ‘public health’, 1780–1850
- 7 Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe
- 8 Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience
- 9 Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914
- 10 Plagues of beasts and men; prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa
- 11 Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic
- 12 The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981–6: historical perspectives
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Summary
The chapters in this volume are, with one exception, revised versions of papers delivered to the Past and Present conference on ‘Epidemics and Ideas’ held in Exeter College, Oxford, on 21 and 22 September 1989. The exception, chapter 7 by Richard Evans, was originally published in Past and Present, no. 120 (August 1988). The Past and Present Society is grateful to the Wellcome Trust for a grant towards the expenses of the conference. The Editors also wish to thank those who gave papers on that occasion, and especially Virginia Berridge, Lawrence Conrad and Peregrine Horden who stepped in to fill gaps in the programme at a late stage. We owe a considerable debt finally to all those who commented and contributed to discussion at the various sessions, and who have generously allowed us to draw on their remarks in our own contributions to this volume.
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- Epidemics and IdeasEssays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992