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The Moral Contagion
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Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee
| Language:
English
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Author:
Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee
Language:
English
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This scenario has become painfully familiar to us. India was one of the countries hit
hardest by the Covid pandemic, with a tragically high number of casualties. The
pandemic also made some things an integral part of our lives: wearing masks,
sanitizing, social distancing, isolating oneself.
None of this, however, is unique – even though the Covid virus was a new one. Over
the centuries, wave after wave of the devastating plague pandemic had impacted
humanity in similar ways, and the responses to the threats it posed had been similar
too. From sixth-century Constantinople and fourteenth-century Europe to Islamic
Spain, seventeenth-century London, eighteenth-century Aleppo, and Hong Kong,
Bombay, San Francisco and South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, the history of the plague is, in a way, the story of modern civilization.
The Moral Contagion is an insightful and absorbing take on that story. Based on Julia
Hauser’s rigorous scholarship and enhanced by Sarnath Banerjee’s wry illustrations,
this utterly gripping book playfully melds meticulous research with imaginative
storytelling to create a graphic narrative about pandemics and reflect on how societies
and individuals tend to react when faced with an adversary that is, literally, larger than
life.
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Description
This scenario has become painfully familiar to us. India was one of the countries hit
hardest by the Covid pandemic, with a tragically high number of casualties. The
pandemic also made some things an integral part of our lives: wearing masks,
sanitizing, social distancing, isolating oneself.
None of this, however, is unique – even though the Covid virus was a new one. Over
the centuries, wave after wave of the devastating plague pandemic had impacted
humanity in similar ways, and the responses to the threats it posed had been similar
too. From sixth-century Constantinople and fourteenth-century Europe to Islamic
Spain, seventeenth-century London, eighteenth-century Aleppo, and Hong Kong,
Bombay, San Francisco and South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, the history of the plague is, in a way, the story of modern civilization.
The Moral Contagion is an insightful and absorbing take on that story. Based on Julia
Hauser’s rigorous scholarship and enhanced by Sarnath Banerjee’s wry illustrations,
this utterly gripping book playfully melds meticulous research with imaginative
storytelling to create a graphic narrative about pandemics and reflect on how societies
and individuals tend to react when faced with an adversary that is, literally, larger than
life.
About Author
Julia Hauser is a senior lecturer in Modern History at the University of Kassel, Germany,
and an alumnus of the Arab±German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities
(AGYA). Hauser was a fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut, Rice University,
Houston/Texas, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, and ICAS:MP, Delhi.
Among her publications are German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut:
Competing Missions and A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism.
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