The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-century Seville 0807144401, 9780807144404

In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, t

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The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-century Seville
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Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, a

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In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than any

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Bubonic Plague was an ongoing epidemic that sickened and killed many in Europe and beyond beginning in the mid-fourteent

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Using the insights of organizational theory, she analyzes the role played by local party organs in implementing agricult

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An astonishing selection of the best evidence for an afterlife taken from the full range of sources, complemented by car

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In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than any

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Modern audiovisual media have spawned a ‘plague of fantasies’, electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability

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In 1764-65 the irrepressible playwright Beaumarchais traveled to Madrid, where he immersed himself in the life and socie

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