Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : West Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
List of Works Relating to the West Indies
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Author: Lori JonesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429619294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds explores the intertwined relationships between humans, the natural and manmade environments, and disease. Urgency gives us a sense that we need a longer view of human responses and interactions with the airs, waters, and places in which we live, and a greater understanding of the activities and attitudes that have led us to the present. Through a series of new research studies, two salient questions are explored: What are the deeper patterns in thinking about disease and the environment? What can we know about the environmental and ecological parameters of emergent human diseases over a longer period – aspects of disease that contemporary persons were not able to know or understand in the way that we do today? The broad chronological and geographical approach makes this volume perfect for students and scholars interested in the history of disease, environment, and landscape in the medieval and early modern worlds.
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834
Author: Emily SeniorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.
Readings in Caribbean History and Economics
Author: Roberta Marx DelsonPublisher: Routledge
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 7
Author: Peter J KitsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000742296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.
From Oral to Literate Culture
Author: Peter A. RobertsPublisher: Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies
ISBN: 9789766400378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This study presents the movement from an oral to a literate culture in the West Indies with the English language as central to this movement. The period examined, from the start of the first English settlement in the islands up to the time of Emancipation, was the period which established the foundations of West Indian society. The study relates the movement towards a literate culture to the development of methods of communication in the plantation slave society, to general literary and intellectual development, and to the expansion of formal education. Literacy in English is regarded as a barometer of social development because the English language was sustained internally and externally as the language of those who ruled and, contrary to fundamental notions associated with the power of literacy, it maintained privilege within certain sectors of the society. There is no other study which provides the interdisciplinary approach of this work in accounting for the development of literate culture in the West Indies.
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbados, 1752-1758
Author: William HillaryPublisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes was first published in 1759 in London. Remarkably, a third edition was published in Philadelphia in 1812, with praise and annotations by the famous American physician Dr Benjamin Rush, and with good reason. It is certainly the first comprehensive documentation of an epidemiological nature, in English, in the Caribbean, and justifies the title "first Caribbean epidemiologist" for Dr Hillary. He made rigorous observations and clear deductions that have stood the test of time surprisingly well. As Sir George Alleyne, director emeritus of PAHO, says: "We marvel at the conclusions he drew from his observations without the use of the technology which we have at our disposal. We are surprised by the accuracy of the symptomatology he describes." Indeed, Hillary is famous for the earliest description of tropical sprue, but his description of what seemed to be yellow fever but "was not contagious", as yellow fever was then thought to be, was absolutely accurate and this "Barbados jaundice" turned out to be leptospirosis. His methods, his clinical skills and his eloquent writing deserve to be widely read.
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