The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918

Davis, R.

The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-08-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137339201

DOI: 10.1057/9781137339218

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 255