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Cultures of Contagion : a Glossary by Béatrice Delaurenti; Thomas Le Roux; Thomas Piketty is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Cultures of Contagion recounts episodes in the history of contagions, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It considers contagion not only in the medical sense but also as a process, a metaphor, and an interpretive model--as a term that describes not only the transmission of a virus but also the propagation of a phenomenon. The authors describe a wide range of social, cultural, political, and anthropological instances through the prism of contagion--from anti-Semitism to migration, from the nuclear contamination of the planet to the violence of Mao's Red Guard. The book proceeds glossary style, with a series of short texts arranged alphabetically, beginning with an entry on aluminum and environmental contagion and ending with a discussion of writing and textual resemblance caused by influence, imitation, borrowing, and plagiarism. The authors--leading scholars associated with the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques), Paris--consider such topics as the connection between contagion and suggestion, waltzmania in post-Terror Paris,

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Author

Béatrice Delaurenti; Thomas Le Roux; Thomas Piketty

Publisher

MIT Press; The MIT Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262365772

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Medical, Science