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Index
Cover Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Plague and the City in History
Urban Pathologies
The Social Life of Plague
Urban Interventions
Imagining and Re-Imagining Plague
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
1 ‘Great Stenches, Horrible Sights, and Deadly Abominations’: Butchery and the Battle Against Plague in Late Medieval English Towns
Butchery and the Transmission of Plague
Slaughterhouses, Scalding Houses, and Meat Markets
Waste Disposal
The Quality of the Urban Meat Supply
Notes
References
2 Plague in Early Modern London: Chronologies, Localities, and Environments
Public Authority and Official Responses
Chronologies and Geographies of Plague
Chronology and Incidence
Seasonal Patterns and Coincident Diseases
Localities and Environments
Conclusion: Bubonic Plague?
Notes
References
3 ‘Filth is the Mother of Corruption’: Plague, the Poor, and the Environment in Early Modern Florence
The ‘City is [Like] a Hospital’: The Tradition of Sanitary Legislation
The Plague of 1630–1631
Medical Theory: Poverty, Disease, and the Environment
Public Health and Preventive Measures
The Sanitary Survey in Florence, August to September 1630
Conclusion
Notes
References
4 Plague Views: Epidemics, Photography, and the Ruined City
Introduction: The Imperial Album
China and the ‘Photography Complex’
‘A Wilderness of Ruin’: Catastrophic Empire
Reading Griffith’S Views of the Plague
Conclusion
Notes
References
5 The Disease Map and the City: Desire and Imitation in the Bombay Plague, 1896–1914
The Arrival of Plague in India, 1896
The Creation of the Plague Committee
Three Case Studies
Rethinking the Mimetic Map
Notes
References
6 ‘A Source of Sickness’: Photographic Mapping of the Plague in Honolulu in 1900
Introduction
‘A Source of Filth and a Cause of Sickness’
Photographic Portraits of Plague Houses
Photographic Mapping of Plague
Medical Geography Beyond Cartography
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Public Culture and the Spectacle of Epidemic Disease in Rabat and Casablanca
Plague in Morocco
Figuring Disease Within Scientific Urbanism
Urban Coexistence and Moroccan Modernities
Terrains Vagues: Capital, Control, and the Recuperation of Space in Casablanca
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
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