An absorbing look at the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class and in urban development in nineteenth- and twentieth-

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Thirteen-year-old Sikander Aziz has to team up with the hero Gilgamesh in order to stop Nergal, the ancient god of plagues, from wiping out the population of Ma

Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval, early modern and modern periods. It is ideal for stu

Plagues, poisons and potions highlights one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of early modern plague. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ou