America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 - Softcover

Crosby, Alfred W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521386950 ISBN 13: 9780521386951

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide claiming over 25 million lives, more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-striken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event.

About this title

Book Description:

Originally published in 1976, this vivid narrative of the devastating but largely forgotten Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 is updated with a new preface.

About the Author:

Alfred W. Crosby is a Professor Emeritus in American Studies, History and Geography at the University of Texas, Austin, where he taught for over twenty years. His previous books include America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2003), Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History (Cambridge, 2002), The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250 1600 (Cambridge, 1997). The Measure of Reality was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the 100 most important books of 1997.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521386950
• ISBN 13: 9780521386951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 351