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Epidemics and History : Disease, Power, and Imperialism
Epidemics and History Disease Power and Imperialism Author:Sheldon Watts This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. This book will become the standard account of the way diseases-arising through chance, through reckless environmental change engineered by man, or through a com... more »bination of each-were interpreted in Western Europe and in the colonized world.« less