Controlling Contagion. Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid, Hardback

How human institutions markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Author(s): Sheilagh Ogilvie
• Illustration(s): 26 b/w illus. 20 tables. 5 maps.
• Number of pages: 544
• Collection: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 42
• Cover type: Hardback