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Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the highly contagious disease called bubonic plague, also referred to as "the black death", from the past to the present, and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.
2) Plague
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Explores plague in detail, covering its history, its current existence in the world, and the impact it could have on the future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In 1347, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Now believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other rarer plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the continent for several terrible years before finally fading away in 1352. Most historians believe that the pandemic, which also swept across parts of Western Asia and North Africa, annihilated 33 to 60 percent of Europe's population - roughly...
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Black Death sounds like the name of a creepy movie, but it was an actual historical event. It was the term for the pandemic of plague throughout Europe and Asia in the 14th century. Before it was over, tens of millions of people had died. Readers will be enthralled--and perhaps disgusted!--to learn of the disturbing details of this gruesome disease and how it spread. They'll learn how people coped, how the world changed, and that plague still...
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the Black Death, describing its origins in China, its rapid spread through Europe between 1347 and 1353, the impact of depopulation on the European economies, and the periodic outbreaks that continued until the the discovery of antibiotics in the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Conservative estimates say that about 25 million Europeans-- roughly a third of the populace at the time-- died from the bubonic plague during the 1340s. Over the ensuing centuries it repeatedly resurfaced around the globe in smaller but still destructive outbreaks. Nardo examines the historical significance, and shows how Europe's economic, legal, and religious and educational systems underwent large scale transformations in the disease's wake. ...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions of people almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918, to the eruption of COVID-19...
Author
Series
Publisher
BrightPoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to spread around the world. More than 500 million people became sick with the flu in 1918. The Black Death killed nearly one-third of Europe's population. Past Pandemics and COVID-19 examines how COVID-19 compares to widespread diseases of history"--
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Accomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother passes away, she welcomes the unexpected trip to the Tuscan city of Siena to resolve his estate, even as she wrestles with grief. But as she delves deeper into her brother's affairs, she discovers intrigue she never imagined--a 700-year-old conspiracy to decimate the city. After uncovering the journal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague, but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
"With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--
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