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Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown
- Title
- Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown / Guenter B. Risse.
- Author
- Risse, Guenter B., 1932-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2012], ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC176.C2 R57 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 371 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "The people of Tang" in San Francisco -- "Guarding life" and way of death -- Sanitation, microbes, and plague -- Officials, Mandarins, and the press -- Early scenes of terror : Chinatown, March to June 1900 -- The siege continues : Chinatown, June to December 1900 -- Secrecy : plague goes underground, 1901 -- Rumors and realities : plague in California, 1902 -- National threat, 1903 -- Sanitarians claim victory, 1904 to 1905.
- ISBN
- 9781421405100 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781421405537 (electronic)
- 1421405105 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
- 1421405539 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2011035144
- OCLC
- ocn747819372
- 747819372
- SCSB-8860168
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries