Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera is professor of Contemporary History in the University of Girona, Spain, where he leads the Chair Walter Benjamin, Memory and Exile. He has been visiting lecturer in several international universities. He is specialist in political and intellectual history in Europe and Spain in the 20th century. He has focused a significant part of his works on the impact of the First World War in Spain and Neutral Countries and the right-wing movements and Fascism in Europe. His latest books are Spain and Argentina in the First World War. Transnational Neutralities (Routledge, 2021) and Continental Transfers. Cultural and Political Exchanges among Spain, Italy and Argentina 1914-1945 (2022, edited with Patrizia Dogliani).

• 1. IntroductionMaximiliano Fuentes Codera2. Spain and the impact of the 1918 influenza: from the Great War to the dictatorship of Primo de RiveraMaximiliano Fuentes Codera3. The Flu of 1918 Seen by Health Intellectuals in SpainJoaquim M. Puigvert i Solà4. The 1918 flu in Barcelona and Catalonia: borders, social emergency and "regionalist fever"Pau Font Masdeu5. The 1918-19 pandemic in Portugal: memory and forgettingJosé Manuel Sobral6. The "Spanish" flu: the Italian casePatrizia Dogliani7. Sick Latin America. Intellectual Interventions on Latin American Condemnations and Failures, 1898-1930Paula Bruno8. The Awareness of Death: Portraits and Literary Memories of the 1918 FluFrancesc Montero9. The Role of the Experts in the Time of a Pandemic. The case of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in ArgentinaLaura Palermo10. Fascism, populism and disease. From the traces of the 1918 flu to COVID-19Federico Finchelstein