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This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in diffe

"This book offers an original, multidisciplinary approach to the global history of pandemics, focusing on the making and circulation of visual images. It will i

In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to on

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions,

How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.”