Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg

by Esyllt W. Jones

Book Overview

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did it mean to live through and beyond this brief, terrible episode, and what were its long-term effects?

Influenza 1918 uses Winnipeg as a case study to show how disease articulated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802094392
• ISBN13: 9780802094391
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher