Pale rider the Spanish Flu of and how it changed - WorldCat. Next. Pale rider the Spanish Flu of and how it changed - WorldCat. Posted on by lykis. Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of and How It Changed the. · Pale Rider.: In , the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of was one of the greatest human disasters of all time.4/5(10). And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, traci. With a death toll of between 50 and million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of – was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history/5.
Laura Spinney's Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of and How it Changed the World is a great and highly accessible guide to one of the twentieth century's greatest tragedies. It is not a detailed academic study. Pale Rider sets the bar very high. Nature. Influenza, like all viruses, is a parasite. Laura Spinney traces its long shadow over human history In Europe and North America the first world war killed more than Spanish flu; everywhere else the reverse is true. Yet most narratives focus on the West Ms Spinney's book goes some way to redress. Laura Spinney, journalist and author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of and How It Changed the World. Image: Studio Cabrelli "One of the ways I tried to explain it in my book was that, to me, that pandemic is remembered individually as millions of discrete tragedies, not in a history book sense of something that happened collectively to.
The deadliest event of was not the continued fighting of WWI but the Spanish flu, which affected one third of the world’s population, killing over 10% of its victims. This is no longer a controversial assessment, notes science journalist Spinney (Rue Centrale) in an often disturbing account that begins in prehistory and continues to the 21st century. This is very important since analyzing the causes and consequences of a single event in a single country is very difficult, moreso as it took place during a world war. Reading Pale Rider raises many questions, such as why the young and healthy were so vulnerable and why then did the influenza pandemic hit different parts of the world so differently. Making a synthesis is, however, not the aim of the book, simply because much of the evidence is still fragmentary and sometimes contradictory. Over three waves of infections, the Spanish flu killed around 50 million people between and Science journalist Laura Spinney studied the pandemic for her book Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of and How It Changed the World. Here, she explains the impact the disease had on 20th-Century society – and talks about the lessons for the COVID pandemic today.
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