Description |
1 online resource (xix, 251 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book
|
Contents |
The mortality revolution and the tropical world : relocation costs in the early nineteenth century -- Sanitation and tropical hygiene at mid-century -- Killing diseases of the tropical world -- Relocation costs in the late nineteenth century -- The revolution in hygiene and tropical medicine -- The pursuit of disease, 1870-1914 |
Summary |
This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics between about 1815 and 1914. This study, however, has broader implications. For Europe itself, this was the crucial century of the 'mortality revolution', with its profound influence on European and world demographic history. For the history of medicine, this was the transitional century between the kind of medicine that had been practiced in Europe since classical times and the kind of scientific medicine that would be spawned by the germ theory of disease. For Europe's global, political and military relations, this was the final period for the European conquest. For all these reasons, the relocation costs of this period have great bearing on human history |
Analysis |
Tropical regions Europeans Diseases, history |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index |
Notes |
English |
|
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
Print version record |
|
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Tropical medicine -- History
|
|
Soldiers -- Mortality -- India
|
|
Soldiers -- Mortality -- Algeria
|
|
Soldiers -- Mortality -- West Indies
|
|
Medicine, Military -- History
|
|
Mortality.
|
|
History, 19th Century
|
|
Military Medicine -- history
|
|
Mortality
|
|
Tropical Medicine -- history
|
|
mortality.
|
|
Mortality
|
|
Medicine, Military
|
|
Soldiers -- Mortality
|
|
Tropical medicine
|
|
Imperialismus
|
|
Militärmedizin
|
|
Tropenkrankheit
|
|
Tropenmedizin
|
|
Tropische ziekten.
|
|
Soldaten.
|
|
Sterfte.
|
|
Medicina Do Trabalho.
|
|
Médecine militaire -- 19e siècle.
|
|
Soldats -- Maladies -- Algérie -- 19e siècle.
|
|
Soldats -- Maladies -- Inde -- 19e siècle.
|
|
Soldats -- Maladies -- Antilles -- 19e siècle.
|
|
Médecine tropicale -- 19e siècle.
|
|
Voyages -- Aspect médical -- 19e siècle.
|
SUBJECT |
Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
|
|
Europe |
Subject |
Europe
|
|
Algeria
|
|
India
|
|
West Indies
|
Genre/Form |
Statistics
|
|
History
|
|
Statistics.
|
|
Statistiques.
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
LC no. |
89031414 |
ISBN |
9780511665240 |
|
0511665245 |
|
9780521389228 |
|
0521389224 |
|