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Malaria and Rome : a history of malaria in ancient Italy / Robert Sallares.

Title: Malaria and Rome : a history of malaria in ancient Italy / Robert Sallares.
Author: Sallares, Robert
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description

xv, 341 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-328) and index.

Processing Action (note)

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Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Types of malaria -- 3. Evolution and prehistory of malaria -- 4. The ecology of malaria in Italy -- Malaria and mosquitoes -- Malarial environments -- Malaria in Sardinia -- Malaria, roads, and housing -- Climatic change -- Agricultural change and deforestation -- 5. The demography of malaria -- Direct and indirect approaches to the demography of malaria -- Interactions of malaria with other diseases -- Malaria and nutrition -- Comparative demography of malaria in Italy and England -- 6. The Pontine Marshes -- 7. Tuscany -- 8. The city of Rome -- 9. The Roman Campagna -- 10. Apulia -- 11. Geographical contrasts and demographic variation.

ISBN

0199248508

LCCN

^^2002512722

OCLC

50747841

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Harvard Library