Epidemics and history disease, power, and imperialism / [electronic resource] :
Sheldon Watts.
- Yale University Press, c1997.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 400 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-384) and index.
The Human Response to Plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark Hidden Meanings: Leprosy and Lepers in the Medieval West and in the Tropical World under the European Imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the Old: From Holocaust to Eradication, 1518 to 1977 -- The Secret Plague: Syphilis in West Europe and East Asia, 1492 to 1965 -- Cholera and Civilization: Great Britain and India, 1817 to 1920 -- Yellow Fever, Malaria and Development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647 to 1928 -- Afterword: To the Epidemiologic Transition? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 269.