Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 A Remembrance of the Dead and an Archive for the Living

The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza at the beginning of the twentieth century threaded with the human stories of the people that lived and died in the three year pandemic in Nova Scotia.

About the author

Ruth Holmes Whitehead has worked since 1972 for the Nova Scotia Museum, since 2003 as a Curator Emerita and Research Associate. She has authored or co-authored twenty books, including Stories from the Six Worlds, The Old Man Told Us, Black Loyalists, and Ancestral Images. In 1995, she was awarded a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, by St. Francis Xavier University. In 2014, Dr. Whitehead was inducted into the Order of Nova Scotia. She lives in Halifax.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Holmes Whitehead
• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (cn)
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 20.11.2020
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781771089159
• ISBN: 978-1-77108-915-9
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions (packing): 16.5 x 23.4 x 2.8 cm
• Weight (packing): 699 g
• Subjects: Kanada, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, History - General History, HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Respiratory, Zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (ca. 1850 bis ca. 1899), 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1999), 21. Jahrhundert (ca. 2000 bis ca. 2100)