Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901

This history reveals the global effects of the bubonic plague, and what we can learn from this earlier pandemic.

A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than fifteen million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three "pearls" of the Pacific; Bu...