The Monster Enters
Synopsis
A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a coming global threat of viral catastrophes. Now in this expanded edition of that 2005 book, Davis explains how the problems he warned of remain, and he sets the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of previous disastrous outbreaks, notably the 1918 influenza disaster that killed at least forty million people in three months and the Avian flu of a decade and a half ago.In language both accessible and authoritative, The Monster Enters surveys the scientific and political roots of today&’s viral apocalypse. In doing so it exposes the key roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments and a capitalist global system careening out of control, in creating the ecological pre-conditions for a plague that has brought much of human existence to a juddering halt.
- प्रतिलिपि अधिकार:
- 2020 Mike Davis
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781839765674
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Date of Addition:
- 2022-02-01T08:50:35Z
- भाषा:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.