It takes the average reader 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China by Carol Ann Benedict
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This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, and eventually exploded on the world scene as a global pandemic at the end of the century. The author finds the origins of the pandemic in Qing economic expansion, which brought new populations into contact with plague-bearing animals along Chinas southwestern frontier. She shows how the geographic diffusion of the disease closely followed the growth of...
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China by Carol Ann Benedict is 292 pages long, and a total of 73,584 words.
This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 42 minutes to read Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China aloud.
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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