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Epidemics and history : disease, power, and imperialism

Title
Epidemics and history : disease, power, and imperialism / Sheldon Watts.
Author
Watts, S. J. (Sheldon J.)
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.

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Description
xvi, 400 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-384) and index.
Contents
The human response to plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark hidden meanings: leprosy and lepers in the medieval west and in the tropical world under the European imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the old: from holocaust to eradicaton, 1518-1977 -- The secret plague: syphilis in West Europe and East Asia, 1492-1965 -- Cholera and civilization: Great Britain and India, 1817-1920 -- Yellow fever, malaria and development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647-1928.
Call Number
JFE 99-8260
ISBN
0300070152
LCCN
97028168
OCLC
37239070
Author
Watts, S. J. (Sheldon J.)
Title
Epidemics and history : disease, power, and imperialism / Sheldon Watts.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-384) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 99-8260
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