{"product_id":"cultures-of-contagionisbn-9780262045919","title":"Cultures of Contagion","description":"\u003cb\u003eContagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultures of Contagion\u003c\/i\u003e recounts episodes in the history of contagions, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It considers contagion not only in the medical sense but also as a process, a metaphor, and an interpretive model--as a term that describes not only the transmission of a virus but also the propagation of a phenomenon. The authors describe a wide range of social, cultural, political, and anthropological instances through the prism of contagion--from anti-Semitism to migration, from the nuclear contamination of the planet to the violence of Mao's Red Guard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book proceeds glossary style, with a series of short texts arranged alphabetically, beginning with an entry on aluminum and \"environmental contagion\" and ending with a discussion of writing and \"textual resemblance\" caused by influence, imitation, borrowing, and plagiarism. The authors--leading scholars associated with the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques), Paris--consider such topics as the connection between contagion and suggestion, \"waltzmania\" in post-Terror Paris, the effect of reading on sensitive imaginations, and the contagiousness of yawning. They take two distinct approaches: either examining contagion and what it signified contemporaneously, or deploying contagion as an interpretive tool. Both perspectives illuminate unexpected connections, unnoticed configurations, and invisible interactions.INTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003eCONTAGION: ITS HISTORY AND SOME HISTORIOGRAPHICAL EXAMPLES FROM ANTIQUITY TO TODAY 1\u003cbr\u003e ALUMINUM \u003cbr\u003eTHE HYPOTHESIS OF AN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE EPIDEMIC? 19\u003cbr\u003e ANALOGY \u003cbr\u003eMINIATURIZATION, MULTIPLICATION, AND FIGURATION IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM 25\u003cbr\u003e ANTI-SEMITISM\u003cbr\u003eANTI-SEMITISM AS A DISEASE: THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF A METAPHOR 33\u003cbr\u003e ARISTOCRACY \u003cbr\u003eTAINTED BLOOD AND ARISTOCRATIC VALUES IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN 39\u003cbr\u003e BELIEF \u003cbr\u003eLIBERTINISM AND ATHEISM (SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) 45\u003cbr\u003e CALENDAR\u003cbr\u003eCIRCULATION AND MISUSE OF A MEDIEVAL ICONOGRAPHICAL MODEL 51\u003cbr\u003e CARTOGRAPHY \u003cbr\u003eJOHN SNOW AND THE TOPOGRAPHY OF CHOLERA 57\u003cbr\u003e CLOTHING \u003cbr\u003eMEDIEVAL SUMPTUARY LAWS AS MEASURES OF SOCIAL CONTAINMENT? 65\u003cbr\u003e COLONIZATION \u003cbr\u003eSOCIAL CONTAGION AS A CIVILIZING TOOL 71\u003cbr\u003e CONSUMPTION \u003cbr\u003eADDICTION TO GEOPHAGY DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE 77\u003cbr\u003e CONTROVERSY \u003cbr\u003ePROPAGATION OF THE QUARREL BETWEEN RABBIS JACOB EMDEN AND JONATHAN EYBESCHUTZ 83\u003cbr\u003e CROWD\u003cbr\u003eGUSTAVE LE BON, SIGMUND FREUD, GABRIEL TARDE BETWEEN SUGGESTION AND CONTAGION 89\u003cbr\u003e DANCE\u003cbr\u003eWALTZMANIA IN THE PARIS PLEASURE GARDENS 95\u003cbr\u003e EPIDEMIC\u003cbr\u003eBOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (NINETEENTH CENTURY): FROM THE MIASMA TO THE MICROBE 103\u003cbr\u003e EX-VOTO\u003cbr\u003eVOTIVE AND POLITICAL ACCUMULATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPACE 107\u003cbr\u003e HERESY \u003cbr\u003eFIGHTING THE CRYPTO-PROTESTANT “INFESTATION” UNDER THE HABSBURG MONARCHY 115\u003cbr\u003e ICONOGRAPHY \u003cbr\u003eDYNAMICS OF INNOVATION AT WORK IN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE HELLMOUTH 121\u003cbr\u003e INNOVATION \u003cbr\u003eORGAN BUILDING AND DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES IN THE RENAISSANCE 129\u003cbr\u003e JUDEITY \u003cbr\u003eIDENTITY AND OTHERNESS: JEWS IN FRANCE CIRCA 1900 135\u003cbr\u003e LANGUAGES \u003cbr\u003eHYBRID LANGUAGES OR “IMPURE” LANGUAGES? FROM HISPERIC LATIN TO ARABO-LATIN (SIXTH\u003cbr\u003e TO FIFTEENTH CENTURY) 141\u003cbr\u003e LITERATURE \u003cbr\u003eTHE MISDEEDS OF READING UPON SENSITIVE IMAGINATIONS 147\u003cbr\u003e LUXURY \u003cbr\u003e“HOLDING INDIA IN THEIR HANDS”: INFLUX OF WEALTH INTO REPUBLICAN AND IMPERIAL ROME 153\u003cbr\u003e MANUSCRIPTS \u003cbr\u003eEXEMPLA AND THE FREEDOM OF COPYISTS AT THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES 159\u003cbr\u003e MICROBES \u003cbr\u003eUNDERSTANDINGS OF DISEASE TRANSMISSION IN THE WESTERN WORLD (FIFTEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY) 165\u003cbr\u003e MIGRATION \u003cbr\u003eMIGRATION NETWORKS: MAPPING AND THEORIZING MOBILITY 171\u003cbr\u003e MYTH \u003cbr\u003eTHE NEANDERTHAL JEW: A STRUCTURE THAT GIVES MEANING TO THE SUBJUGATION OF THE OTHER 177\u003cbr\u003e NAMING \u003cbr\u003eLINEAGES OF CHOICE AMONG THE ARTISTS OF THE RENAISSANCE 183\u003cbr\u003e NUCLEAR \u003cbr\u003eVISUALIZING THE NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION OF THE PLANET DURING THE COLD WAR 189\u003cbr\u003e PLAGUE \u003cbr\u003ePROCESSIONS AT BEAUNE AMID THE WARS OF RELIGION: A WORD AGAINST WHICH EVIL? 195\u003cbr\u003e POLLUTION \u003cbr\u003eTHE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: A BARRICADE AGAINST INFECTION (1770–1830) 201\u003cbr\u003e PRISON \u003cbr\u003e“PRISON IS A SCHOOL OF CRIME”: PROSELYTISM IN THE JAILS OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME 207\u003cbr\u003e PROGRESS \u003cbr\u003eTHE BATTLE OF WHEAT: AN IDEOLOGICAL TOOL FOR FASCIST ITALY 213\u003cbr\u003e PROPHYLAXIS \u003cbr\u003eSINGING TO THE VIRGIN FOR PROTECTION FROM THE PLAGUE 219\u003cbr\u003e RACE \u003cbr\u003eTHE DISCOURSE ON “BLOOD CONTAMINATION” IN COLONIAL BRITAIN 225\u003cbr\u003e RED GUARDS \u003cbr\u003eAUGUST 1966: SOCIAL AND IDEOLOGICAL VIOLENCE IN MAO’S CHINA 231\u003cbr\u003e RELICS \u003cbr\u003eCONTAGIOUS VIRTUE OF SACRED BODIES 237\u003cbr\u003e REVOLUTION \u003cbr\u003eTHE “FRENCH CONTAGION” AND “JEWISH JACOBINERY” IN THE WRITINGS OF ITALIAN ANTIREVOLUTIONARIES 243\u003cbr\u003e RITUAL\u003cbr\u003e EMERGENCE OF MEANING IN MEDIEVAL LITURGY 249\u003cbr\u003e SANCTITY \u003cbr\u003eROSELINE DE VILLENEUVE OR THE “INVISIBLE ACTION OF THE SPIRIT” 259\u003cbr\u003e SMALLPOX \u003cbr\u003eINOCULATION OR QUARANTINE? A SCIENTIFIC DEBATE IN EUROPE DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT 265\u003cbr\u003e SOLITUDE \u003cbr\u003eTHE RIGHT TO LIVE ALONE: A DIFFICULT PATH TO ACCEPTANCE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES 271\u003cbr\u003e SPIRITUALITY \u003cbr\u003eCONTAMINATED AND CONTAGIOUS PASSIONS: FROM DEVOUT ECSTASY TO DEMONIC POSSESSION 277\u003cbr\u003e SUICIDE \u003cbr\u003eMORAL CONTAGION VERSUS SOCIAL EPIDEMIC IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ÉMILE DURKHEIM’S SOCIOLOGY 283\u003cbr\u003e SWAMPS \u003cbr\u003eDRYING FEVER IN MODERN EUROPE 289\u003cbr\u003e THEATER \u003cbr\u003eFROM POISON TO PATRIOTIC ELECTRICITY: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CONCEPTIONS OF THE SPECTACLE 295\u003cbr\u003e TRADITION \u003cbr\u003eANCIENT WRITINGS AND POLITICAL LEGITIMATION IN CHINA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 301\u003cbr\u003e TRANSNATIONALISM \u003cbr\u003eMIGRATION FEVER AND THE STUDY OF MOBILITY 307\u003cbr\u003e VOGUE \u003cbr\u003eTHE LAMBETH WALK AND THE “FOLKLORIZATION” OF COCKNEY CULTURE IN 1930s GREAT BRITAIN 313\u003cbr\u003e WRITING \u003cbr\u003eTEXTUAL RESEMBLANCE AS A HISTORICAL OBJECT 321\u003cbr\u003e YAWNING \u003cbr\u003eWHY IS YAWNING CATCHING? FOURTEENTHCENTURY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 327\u003cbr\u003e AFTERWORD \u003cbr\u003eCONTAGIONS, IDEOLOGIES, ECONOMIES: THOUGHTS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 333\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 339\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 341Béatrice Delaurenti is Associate Professor in History at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris. Thomas Le Roux is Associate Professor of Research in History at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and coauthor (with François Jarrige) of \u003ci\u003eThe Contamination of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). Delaurenti and Le Roux are Directors of the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques) of the EHESS.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302562189541,"sku":"NP9780262045919","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262045919_a21a7495-8c0f-476f-bbd3-ccd3c8cc8820.jpg?v=1730751275","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cultures-of-contagionisbn-9780262045919","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}