220069 Epidemics and Disease from the Black Death to Cholera (S) (WiSe 2021/2022)
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Epidemics and disease have played an important role in history. In this seminar, we study a series of cases under varying aspects — cultural, gender, economic, demographic etc. We will start with the second plague pandemic in the 14th century, known as the “Black Death”. Following contact with Europeans from 1492, demographic disasters, caused mostly by a number of different pathogens, disrupted indigenous populations in the Americas. We are particularly interested in understanding the globalising networks of the late medieval and early modern worlds, which created the paths through which disease spread. Colonialism played a crucial role in this and, hence, posed new challenges to controlling disease.
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William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples, New York 2010.
Frank M Snowden, Epidemics and society: from the black death to the present, New Haven 2019.
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