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    American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic
    American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic
    American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic
    Audiobook12 hours

    American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic

    Written by Nancy Bristow

    Narrated by Karen White

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    Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past.

    American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It sheds light on the social and cultural history of Americans during the pandemic, uncovering both the causes of the nation's public amnesia and the depth of the quiet remembering that endured. Focused on the primary players in this drama-patients and their families, friends, and community, public health experts, and health care professionals-historian Nancy K. Bristow draws on multiple perspectives to highlight the complex interplay between social identity, cultural norms, memory, and the epidemic. Bristow has combed a wealth of primary sources, including letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, novels, newspapers, magazines, and government documents. She shows that though the pandemic caused massive disruption in the most basic patterns of American life, influenza did not create long-term social or cultural change, serving instead to reinforce the status quo and the differences and disparities that defined American life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 9, 2020
    ISBN9781705239308
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      A hodge podge of newspaper clippings. Quite disorganized. No perceivable timeline in summaries provided by the well-meaning author.