Humanity's Burden - A Global History of Malaria

Informationen zum Autor James L. A. Webb Jr is Professor of History at Colby College, Maine. He is the author of Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850 and Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800-1900. He is the founding editor of the Series in Ecology and History. Klappentext This book provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria from Paleolithic times up to the present. Zusammenfassung Humanity's Burden provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria. It traces the long arc of malaria out of tropical Africa into Eurasia! its transfer to the Americas during the early years of the Columbian exchange! and its retraction from the middle latitudes into the tropics since the late nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Early tropical Africa; 2. Into Eurasia; 3. Into the Americas; 4. Bitter medicines; 5. Toward global public health; 6. Africa redux.

Product details

• Authors: James Webb, James L. A. Webb, Jr. Webb, Jr. James L. A. Webb, James L. a. Webb Jr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521670128
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67012-8
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Studies in Environment and His
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine