Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown by Guenter B. Risse

Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown

Guenter B. Risse

371 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city's Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. Guenter B. Risse...

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