The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 appeared suddenly at the end of the First World War and with explosive impact took the lives of at least 30 million people worldwide. Spreading rapidly across the globe, it defied all previous understandings of the disease, striking the youngest and healthiest individuals most acutely and confounding the doctors and governments who struggled to contain it. In this volume, Susan Kingsley Kent presents an overview of the disease, detailing its symptoms, tracking its spread, and offering insights into the medical community’s understanding of and reaction to the pandemic. Documents from period newspapers, medical journals, and government publications, as well as letters, journal entries, memoirs, and novels written by survivors and medical staff, provide a variety of perspectives from six continents and illuminate the impact of the pandemic — from the lives of children orphaned by the flu to colonial rebellions for which the pandemic served as a major catalyst. Document headnotes, maps and illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index enrich students’ understanding.

Additional ISBNs: 0312677081, 1319296378, 9780312677084, 9781319296377The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: A Brief History with Documents 1st Edition is written by Susan K. Kent and published by Bedford/St. Martin’s. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 are 9781319241629, 131924162X and the print ISBNs are 9780312677084, 0312677081.