| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Stuart J. Borsch. The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 195. $50.00.

Interest in and publishing on the Black Death have exploded. Yet among the spate of recent books and articles that deal with the pandemic there has been little that is comparative, let alone global, in scope. In my work on the second pandemic I have encountered the difficulties of limited access and language skills that Europeanists face when they seek to look beyond the Mediterranean littoral. Michael Dols's pioneering articles and his monograph, The Black Death in the Middle East (1977), remain indispensable to anglophone students of the plague with an interest in the Islamic world. Stuart J. Borsch acknowledges the importance of Dols's work and the need to expand our knowledge and understanding of the Islamic world's experience of the plague. His somewhat ill-titled work is a solid contribution to Islamic plague studies (and Mamluk studies more generally) and an attempt at comparative plague studies, although on a very narrow front.

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