Ebook {Epub PDF} The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase

 · The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in , at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and Brand: Random House Publishing Group. This new work, The Barbary Plague: The Black Death In Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase will soon become the standard reference on this fascinating chapter in California history. It is the first book length study covering the two plague outbreaks which visited San Francisco between and , and it stands alone in its ability to. He won the trust of San Franciscans by shifting the government's attack on the plague from the cool remove of the laboratory onto the streets, among the people it affected. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. Marilyn Chase.5/5(2).

The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer Australia, on the day after New Year's in Though the ship passed inspection, some of her stowaways—infected rats—escaped detection and made their way into the city's sewer system. Two months later, the first human case of bubonic plague surfaced in Chinatown. Marilyn Chase's lucid narrative provides a dramatic description of the dynamic city of San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century. Its ethnic diversity, social stratification, and physical beauty are thoroughly described to provide the setting in which the first plague death occurred in a Chinese workman on March 6, About The Barbary Plague. The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today's headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in , at the end of the city's Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on.

The Barbary Plague.: Marilyn Chase. Random House Publishing Group, - History - pages. 2 Reviews. “San Francisco in was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. In , a ship called the Australia docked in San Francisco, carrying infected rats that launched a plague epidemic in the city, which raged sporadically for five years before it was subdued. Chase, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, argues in this engaging narrative that social, cultural and psychological issues prevented public health officials from curtailing the outbreak. Marilyn Chase, Author. Random $ (p) ISBN In , a ship called the Australia docked in San Francisco, carrying infected rats that launched a plague epidemic in the.