Segesser, Daniel Marc (8 July 2022). Local perspectives on a global pandemic: A micro-historical approach to the “Spanish flu” 1918/19 in Swiss cantons (Unpublished). In: Same planet, different worlds: environmental histories imagining anew – 11th Annual Conference of the European Society of Environmental History. Bristol. 4–8 July 2022.
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Based on an analysis of an inter-cantonal conference in November 1918 this presentation proposes to look at the ways the global pandemic of the “Spanish flu” struck on local and regional environments in a neutral country. It will look at how these local environments reacted to a pandemic that had been kept as secret as possible due to the on-going war and was mixed up mixed up with early post-war developments of 1918/19 such as revolutionary strikes, the scarcity of food and the insecurity about what consequences the end of the war would have for a neutral country such as Switzerland. Its aim is also to analyse local reactions to the pandemic with a view to the local willingness to break with the past and imagine the world anew.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Modern and Contemporary History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Economic, Social and Environmental History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Segesser, Daniel |
Subjects: |
900 History 900 History > 940 History of Europe |
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English |
Submitter: |
Daniel Segesser |
Date Deposited: |
21 Jul 2022 11:23 |
Last Modified: |
19 Jul 2023 13:12 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/170643 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170988 |
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