Parasites, pathogens, and progress:diseases and economic development
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MIT Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | c2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 343 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
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9780262015660 0262015668 |
Index Number: | R18 |
CLC: | R18-09 |
Call Number: | R18-09/M148 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index. Introduction: Biology, diseases, and migration before the twentieth century -- Biology, diseases, and history : the big picture -- Diseases and long-run economic growth -- Colonists' choice of agricultural labor in early America -- Initial location of Africans and Europeans in early America -- Slavery and diseases in the antebellum American South -- Evidence on the spread of diseases in nineteenth-century America -- The biology and disease lesson. |