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Parasites, pathogens, and progress：diseases and economic development

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McGuire Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1948-
Group Author: Coelho Philip R. P.
Published: MIT Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Mass.
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Parasitic Diseases > history.
Parasitic diseases > Social aspects.
Parasitic diseases > United States > History.
Evolution (Biology) > United States > History.
Microbiology > United States > History.
Parasitic Diseases > epidemiology > United States.
Parasitic Diseases > history > United States.
History, 18th Century > United States.
History, 19th Century > United States.
Socioeconomic Factors > United States.
United States > Economic conditions.
Carrier Form: viii, 343 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780262015660
0262015668
Index Number: R18
CLC: R18-09
Call Number: R18-09/M148
Contents: 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.

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