- Additional Authors
- Coelho, Philip R. P.
- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 343 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Parasites, pathogens, and progress (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Parasites, pathogens, and progress (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction : biology, diseases, and migration before the twentieth century -- Biology, diseases, and history : the big picture -- Diseases and long-run economic growth -- Colonists' choice of agricultural labor in early America -- Initial location of Africans and Europeans in early America -- Slavery and diseases in the antebellum American South -- Evidence on the spread of diseases in nineteenth-century America -- The biology and disease lesson.
- LCCN
- 2010046703
- OCLC
- ssj0000539884
- Author
McGuire, Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1948-
- Title
Parasites, pathogens, and progress [electronic resource] : diseases and economic development / Robert A. McGuire, Philip R.P. Coelho.
- Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Coelho, Philip R. P.