A transnational history of the 1720 French plague epidemic and its ramifications in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world.

From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plagu

This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague

What is history? What are historians doing, when we create our histories? The need for answers is more urgent than ever. We live in an era when history is often