The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville

by Noble David Cook, Alexandra Parma Cook, David Noble Cook

Book Overview

In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contagion, including the plague; the billeting of troops in preparation for Philip II's invasion of Portugal; crop failure and famine following drought and locust infestation; an aborted uprising of the Moriscos (Christian converts from Islam); bankruptcy of the municipal government; the threat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080714360X
• ISBN13: 9780807143605
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"