Paul F. Cranefield

Science and Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of East Coast fever, a lethal disease of cattle, and its scientific study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9780521392532
• ISBN-10: 0521392535
• Artikelnr.: 26957997

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Prologue
2. The places and the players
3. A new disease?
4. The search for an expert
5. Robert Koch in Bulawayo
6. Joseph Chamberlain
7. Arnold Theiler, Charles Lounsbury and Duncan Hutcheon
8. The fight against East Coast fever
9. The African-owned cattle in Rhodesia
10. Two more parasites and another new disease
11. What is East Coast fever?
12. Epilogue
Notes and references
Index.