The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

The Great Mortality

An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

By
John Kelly
John Kelly
2005 • 364 pages

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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128 books

Plagues And Epidemics

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Chasing Secrets
Where the World Turns Wild
The World the Plague Made
Marie-Grace Makes a Difference
A Journal of the Plague Year
Illusionarium
The Pull of the Stars

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276 books

Medicine

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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine

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75 books

History Europe

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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

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10 books

Black Plague

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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Cure
The Great Plague
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
The Barbary Plague
Maria and the Plague

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51 books

History World

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Historicizing Fear
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Salt: A World History
Empires of the Word
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World