Amanda Kay McVety

The Rinderpest Campaigns

A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781108422741
• ISBN-10: 1108422748
• Artikelnr.: 51379742

Autorenporträt

Amanda Kay McVety is Associate Professor of History at Miami University. She is the author of Enlightened Aid: US Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (2012) and has published articles in the journals Diplomatic History and The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Rinderpest and the origins of international vooperation for disease control
2. GIR-1: rinderpest in World War II
3. 'Freedom from want': UNRRA's rinderpest campaigns
4. The machinery of development: FAO's rinderpest campaigns
5. Back to Grosse Île: biological warfare in the postwar world
6. 'Freedom from rinderpest'
Conclusion.