Epidemic Invasions - Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930

Zusammenfassung Originating in Cuba in 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. This title uncovers how the devastating power of this virus profoundly shaped the relationship between the two countries.

Product details

• Authors: Mariola Espinosa, Espinosa Mariola
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780226218113
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21811-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Epidemiology & medical statistics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Cuba, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Epidemiology and Medical statistics