Philip D. Curtin

Death by Migration

Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics between about 1815 and 1914. Curtin explores the implications in terms of medicine, Europe's history, global, political and military relations that transformed the people and medical know-how.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780521389228
• ISBN-10: 0521389224
• Artikelnr.: 21689925

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables, figures, and maps
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. The mortality revolution and the tropical world: relocation costs in the early nineteenth century
2. Sanitation and tropical hygiene at mid-century
3. Killing diseases of the tropical world
4. Relocation costs in the late nineteenth century
5. The revolution in hygiene and tropical medicine
6. The pursuit of disease, 1870-1914
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.