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Humanity´s Burden: A Global History of Malaria
Jr James L. A. Webb
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Description for Humanity´s Burden: A Global History of Malaria
hardcover. This book provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria from Paleolithic times up to the present. Series: Studies in Environment and History. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 b/w illus. 8 maps. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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. Adopting a broadly comparative approach to historical patterns and processes, it synthesizes research findings from the natural and social sciences and weaves these understandings into a narrative that reaches from the earliest evidence of malaria infections in tropical Africa up to the present. Written in a style that ... Read more
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. Adopting a broadly comparative approach to historical patterns and processes, it synthesizes research findings from the natural and social sciences and weaves these understandings into a narrative that reaches from the earliest evidence of malaria infections in tropical Africa up to the present. Written in a style that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Environment and History
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521854184
SKU
V9780521854184
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About Jr James L. A. Webb
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.
Reviews for Humanity´s Burden: A Global History of Malaria
'No disease is more indicative of social and environmental change than malaria. Its geographical distribution and incidence have been intimately related to all fields of human endeavour, from the production of food to upheavals such as war and mass migration. James Webb's ecological history of malaria provides keen insights into this persistent affliction and into the history of humanity itself. ... Read more