Using numerous primary sources, the writers have produced firsthand accounts of the outbreak in regions of the West largely neglected in other histories. In addition to providing descriptions of the virus and mechanisms of its variation, the writers emphasize social and political conditions that played significant roles in the outbreak. Highly recommended.

• Introduction: Emerging Perspectives of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic 1918-19The Great Evolutionary Potential of Viruses: The 1918 Flu as a Paradigm of Disease EmergenceSpanish Flu in Brazil: Searching for Causes during the Epidemic HorrorRicardo Jorge and the Construction of a Medico-Sanitary Public Discourse: Portugal and International Scientific NetworksAnd to Make Things Worse, the Flu: The Spanish Influenza in a Revolutionary PortugalBetween the Pandemic and World War I: The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in the Spanish Army, through the Eyes of the PressThe Reign of the Spanish Flu: Impact and Responses to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Minas Gerais, BrazilThe Spanish Flu in Bahia, Brazil: Prophylaxis and Healing PracticesA Collaborative Experience: The Mutual Benefit Societies' Responses to the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Pamplona, SpainA Tale of Two Spains: Narrating the Nation during the 1918-19 Influenza EpidemicThe Spanish Flu in Argentina: An Alarming HostageEpidemic Disease, Local Government, and Social Control: The Example of the City of Alicante, SpainThe Gendered Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918-20Remembering and Reconstructing: Fictions of the 1918-19 Influenza PandemicSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Using numerous primary sources, the writers have produced firsthand accounts of the outbreak in regions of the West largely neglected in other histories. In addition to providing descriptions of the virus and mechanisms of its variation, the writers emphasize social and political conditions that played significant roles in the outbreak. Highly recommended.

• Introduction: Emerging Perspectives of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic 1918-19The Great Evolutionary Potential of Viruses: The 1918 Flu as a Paradigm of Disease EmergenceSpanish Flu in Brazil: Searching for Causes during the Epidemic HorrorRicardo Jorge and the Construction of a Medico-Sanitary Public Discourse: Portugal and International Scientific NetworksAnd to Make Things Worse, the Flu: The Spanish Influenza in a Revolutionary PortugalBetween the Pandemic and World War I: The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in the Spanish Army, through the Eyes of the PressThe Reign of the Spanish Flu: Impact and Responses to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Minas Gerais, BrazilThe Spanish Flu in Bahia, Brazil: Prophylaxis and Healing PracticesA Collaborative Experience: The Mutual Benefit Societies' Responses to the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Pamplona, SpainA Tale of Two Spains: Narrating the Nation during the 1918-19 Influenza EpidemicThe Spanish Flu in Argentina: An Alarming HostageEpidemic Disease, Local Government, and Social Control: The Example of the City of Alicante, SpainThe Gendered Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918-20Remembering and Reconstructing: Fictions of the 1918-19 Influenza PandemicSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Using numerous primary sources, the writers have produced firsthand accounts of the outbreak in regions of the West largely neglected in other histories. In addition to providing descriptions of the virus and mechanisms of its variation, the writers emphasize social and political conditions that played significant roles in the outbreak. Highly recommended.

• Introduction: Emerging Perspectives of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic 1918-19The Great Evolutionary Potential of Viruses: The 1918 Flu as a Paradigm of Disease EmergenceSpanish Flu in Brazil: Searching for Causes during the Epidemic HorrorRicardo Jorge and the Construction of a Medico-Sanitary Public Discourse: Portugal and International Scientific NetworksAnd to Make Things Worse, the Flu: The Spanish Influenza in a Revolutionary PortugalBetween the Pandemic and World War I: The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in the Spanish Army, through the Eyes of the PressThe Reign of the Spanish Flu: Impact and Responses to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Minas Gerais, BrazilThe Spanish Flu in Bahia, Brazil: Prophylaxis and Healing PracticesA Collaborative Experience: The Mutual Benefit Societies' Responses to the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Pamplona, SpainA Tale of Two Spains: Narrating the Nation during the 1918-19 Influenza EpidemicThe Spanish Flu in Argentina: An Alarming HostageEpidemic Disease, Local Government, and Social Control: The Example of the City of Alicante, SpainThe Gendered Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918-20Remembering and Reconstructing: Fictions of the 1918-19 Influenza PandemicSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex