Guarding the Golden Gate

Guarding the Golden Gate

A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay

Frierson, J. Gordon

University of Nevada Press

05/2022

213

Mole

Inglês

9781647790462

15 a 20 dias

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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Death in the Hold
Chapter 2. The Origins of Quarantine in America
Chapter 3. Choosing a Site
Chapter 4. Growing Pains
Chapter 5. Two Competing Services
Illustrations
Chapter 6. Plague in the City
Chapter 7. The Station in Middle Age
Chapter 8. Plague Returns
Chapter 9. Full Maturity and Immigration
Chapter 10. The Cyanide Era
Chapter 11. Final Years
Epilogue
Acknowledgment
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
public health; quarantine; San Francisco; California; epidemics; medicine; politics of public health; plague; smallpox; cholera; trachoma; yellow fever; yellow journalism; Chinese; Japanese; immigration; United States history; U.S. History; Angel Island; San Francisco bay