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Chapter 6 The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Developing World: Elechi Amadi and Buchi Emecheta's Occluded Vision -- Epilogue Loss, Contagion, and Community -- Notes -- Index

• Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
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• Release Date : 03 July 2012

After surviving a severe case of influenza in 1918, Katherine Anne Porter observed, 'It simply divided my life, cut across it.' The 1918 influenza pandemic spanned the volatile early twentieth century,

• Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
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• Release Date : 14 January 2014

This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 30 April 2016

This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 22 October 2019

The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 11 April 2019

This text explores a variety of themes developed from successive years of the University of California, Davis, multidisciplinary graduate conference. It draws out connections on a wide array of topics

• Publisher : McFarland
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• Release Date : 28 July 2014

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919--the worst widespread outbreak in recorded history--claimed an estimated 100 million lives globally. Yet only in recent decades has it captured the attention of historians, scientists,

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 20 September 2021

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 08 July 2020

T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong.

• Publisher : St. Martin's Press
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• Release Date : 28 August 2018

Before AIDS or Ebola, there was the Spanish Flu — Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history. In January 1918, as World War