The Barbary Plague

The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

304 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2003 by Random House Trade Paperbacks.

ISBN:
978-0-375-75708-2
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Nominally, this book is about the Black Death and San Francisco, but it is really about science, immigration, racism, and cities in the late 1800s. A fun and interesting read on a less important but still very revealing portion of the city's history.

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