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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher: William Clowes & Sons, Limited
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: William Henry Whitmore
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Charles Vidich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 144087834X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health. The novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and became a worldwide pandemic in 2020 is only one of more than 87 new or emerging pathogens discovered since 1980 that have posed a risk to public health. While many may consider quarantine an antiquated practice, it is often one of the only defenses against new and dangerous communicable diseases. Tracing the United States' quarantine practices through the colonial, postcolonial, and modern eras, Germs at Bay provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value. This book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and helps readers internalize the lessons learned from the pandemic. Few titles provide this level of primary source data on the United States' long reliance on quarantine practices and the political, social, and economic factors that have influenced them.

Author: Daniel Vickers
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551117819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today’s readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today’s audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events—an interpretation informed by his deeply religious beliefs and his suspicion of Yankee patriotism. The Broadview edition is the first to present the story of Ashley Bowen as a continuous narrative. Vickers’ introduction provides the context for Bowen’s life in colonial New England, and additional writings by Ashley Bowen and his Marblehead contemporaries are included. The appendices include Bowen’s diary accounts of his experiences in the 1759 British expedition against Quebec, smallpox epidemics, and the American Revolution.

Author: Alfred Small Manson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: Hobart M. Cable
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Author: Hobart M. Cable
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: H. M. Cable
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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