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Autor:
David S. Barnes
How the controversial practice of quarantine saved nineteenth-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics.Finalist of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award by The Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaIn the 1790s, four devastating yellow fever
Autor:
Joel Peter Eigen
A captivating history of the defense of the insanity plea in England.Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer
Autor:
Sean Takats
In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of the
Autor:
Alan Bewell
Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of