Philip D. Curtain, Philip Curtin

Death by Migration

Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics from 1815 to 1914.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780521389228
• ISBN-10: 0521389224
• Artikelnr.: 21689925

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables, figures, and maps
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. The mortality revolution and the tropical world: relocation costs in the early nineteenth century
2. Sanitation and tropical hygiene at mid-century
3. Killing diseases of the tropical world
4. Relocation costs in the late nineteenth century
5. The revolution in hygiene and tropical medicine
6. The pursuit of disease, 1870-1914
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.