Author: William HillaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airborne infection
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the ... Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes
Author: HillaryObservations on the Changes of the Air, and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes
Author: William HillaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airborne infection
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Empire of Climate
Author: David N. LivingstonePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691236704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human condition, from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to the afflictions of the modern psyche. Taking readers from the time of Hippocrates to the unfolding crisis of global warming today, David Livingstone reveals how climate has been critically implicated in the politics of imperial control and race relations; been used to explain industrial development, market performance, and economic breakdown; and served as a bellwether for national character and cultural collapse. He examines how climate has been put forward as an explanation for warfare and civil conflict, and how it has been identified as a critical factor in bodily disorders and acute psychosis. A panoramic work of scholarship, The Empire of Climate maps the tangled histories of an idea that has haunted our collective imagination for centuries, shedding critical light on the notion that everything from the wealth of nations to the human mind itself is subject to climate’s imperial rule.
Difference and Disease
Author: Suman SethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery
Author: John WareContagion
Author: Mark HarrisonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300123574
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Looks at the connection between trade and disease, tracing the plagues that swept through Eurasia in the fourteenth century and exposes the weaknesses in the current public health system that make our world susceptible to a pandemic.
The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression
Author: Peter HoggPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317792351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A comprehensive bibliography dealing specifically with African slave trade. This volume has been sub-classified for easier consultation and the compiler has provided, where possible, descriptions and comments on the works listed.
Eclectic Repertory and Analytical Review
Author: Sea and Land
Author: Philip D. MorganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197555454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.
African Slave Trade and Its Suppression
Author: Peter C. HoggPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136602461
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1011
Book Description
First Published in 2005. The task of compiling a bibliography of the African slave trade is a difficult one as the literature comprises books, pamphlets and periodical articles in a variety of languages from the sixteenth century to the present day. This title aspires to present a representative selection of the material available and serve as a guide to the main categories of printed material on the subject in western languages. Due to their pre-existing availability and overwhelming quantity, government publications have been kept to a minimum.