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Key ideas from the book
- The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic spread across the globe and infected an estimated third of humanity.
- The pandemic was a major historical catastrophe, though its place in public memory has often been overshadowed by the First World War.
- Spinney examines the pandemic’s effects on politics, race relations and family structures.
- The account considers how the crisis spurred changes in medicine, religion and the arts.
- Research from several disciplines helps place the pandemic’s human and social consequences in context.
About Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
Laura Spinney’s history of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic follows a virus that spread across the globe and infected an estimated third of the world’s population. The crisis caused an enormous loss of life, yet, as Spinney notes, it has often been remembered as an afterthought to the First World War.
Drawing on research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Spinney examines how the pandemic exposed human vulnerability and reshaped societies. She considers its lasting effects on global politics, race relations and family structures, as well as its role in developments in medicine, religion and the arts. This account will interest readers of pandemic history and anyone exploring how a public-health catastrophe can alter the course of the twentieth century.
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