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  • Plague -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
     
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    Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague / David K. Randall.
    by Randall, David K., author.
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    New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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  • Plague -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
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    9780393609455 hardcover :
    0393609456 hardcover :
    Description: 
    273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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    First edition.
    Contents: 
    Prologue: Fighting the devil with fire -- Across the sea -- The Nippon Maru -- The imperial city -- Criminal idiocy -- Fault lines -- Quarantine -- Oust the faker -- An infamous compact -- An impossible task -- A most peculiar team -- As soon as possible -- The unpleasant past -- For god's sake send food -- Two percent -- The worst corner of hell -- One of California's adopted sons -- Cast aside -- A hero once more -- Epilogue: how close we came.
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    Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups.
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    Hanapepe Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction616.9232 RaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Hawaii State LibraryBusiness, Science & Technology616.9232 RaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Mililani Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction616.9232 RaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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