Plagues and their aftermath : how societies recover from pandemics / Brian Michael Jenkins.
By: Jenkins, Brian Michael [author.].
Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, ©2022Description: viii, 215 pages ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781685890162.Subject(s): Pandemics -- History | PandemicsGenre/Form: History. | Informational works. | Informational works. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RA649 .J46 2022 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000019328 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215).
The human toll -- Deep economic scars -- Effects on society -- Political repercussions -- Epidemics and armed conflict -- Post-pandemic terrorism -- The pandemic and bioterrorism -- Looking ahead -- Dramatis pestilentiae.
In a concise, authoritative, and gripping telling, Brian Michael Jenkins--one of our leading authorities on national security and an advisor to governments, presidents and CEOs--provides a masterly account of what kind of future the planet might be facing...by looking at the world's long history of epidemics and discerning what was common about their aftermath.--