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America's Forgotten Pandemic by Alfred W. Crosby
ISBN: 0521833949
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy; Samuel K. Cohn (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 0674076125
The Black Death : The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: a Brief History with Documents by John Aberth
ISBN: 9780312400873
The Black Death Transformed by Samuel K. Cohn
ISBN: 9780340706473
This digital copy is available in the Internet Archive.
The Burdens of Disease by J. N. Hays; J. Hays
ISBN: 9780813548173
Cristofano and the Plague; A Study in the History of Public Health in the Age of Galileo by Carlo M. Cipolla
ISBN: 0520023412
This digital copy is available in the Internet Archive
The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death : Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy by Samuel K. Cohn
ISBN: 9780801856068
Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence by Sharon T. Strocchia
Call Number: Art Reserve H31 .J6 110:1
ISBN: 0801843642
Explaining Epidemics by Charles E. Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780511666865
Faith, Reason and the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany by Carlo M. Cipolla; Muriel Kittel (Translator)
Call Number: Clapp Library RC178.I9 M66213 1979
ISBN: 0801412307
Florence under Siege by John Henderson
ISBN: 9780300196344
Framing Disease : Studies in Cultural History by Charles E. Rosenberg (Editor)
ISBN: 0813517575
This digital copy is available in the Internet Archive.
Framing Disease : Studies in Cultural History by Charles E. Rosenberg (Editor)
Call Number: Science Collection RA418 .F665 1992
ISBN: 0813517575
The Good Women of the Parish by Katherine L. French
ISBN: 9780812240535
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
ISBN: 0670894737
This digital copy is available in the Internet Archive.
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Call Number: Clapp Library RC150.4 .B37 2004
ISBN: 0670894737
Hope and Healing : Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 by Franco Mormando (Editor); Thomas W. Worcester (Editor); Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Editor); Pamela M. Jones (Editor)
Call Number: Art Library ND615 .H66 2005
ISBN: 0936042052
Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence by Nicholas Terpstra (Editor); Colin Rose (Editor)
ISBN: 9781138184893
New Approaches to Neapolitan Culture C. 1500-1800 by Melissa Calaresu; Helen Hills
ISBN: 9781409429449
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World by Monica H. Green (Editor); Carol Symes (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781942401018
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World by Nükhet Varlik
ISBN: 9781139004046
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England by Rebecca Totaro (Editor); Ernest B. Gilman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415877978
Society in an age of plague by Linda Clark (Editor); Carole Rawcliffe (Editor)
ISBN: 9781843838753

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