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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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Details
- 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