Mamá; Dir of Med Humanities & hist prof @UTSA; Series Ed, France Overseas; cofounder @AgeofRevs; FRHistS; @NEHgov. Book: Great Plague Scare (Cambridge UP 2023)
May 25, 2020 • 28 tweets • 10 min read
I wrote this piece for @statnews to mark the tricentennial of the start of the Great Plague of Provence, the last of the great* outbreaks of plague in W. Europe. I discuss some of the many parallels between the 1720 plague & the #COVID19 pandemic. THREAD statnews.com/2020/05/25/bub…
Today marks 300 years since the start of what I argue represents a major moment in the history of disaster mgmt. As the story goes, the Great Plague of Provence (aka Plague of Marseille) began in France #OnThisDay in 1720 with the arrival of the vessel, the Grand Saint-Antoine in
