Epidemics and History
Subtitle: Disease, Power and Imperialism
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780300080872
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of medicine; Imperialism; Infectious & contagious diseases; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; ASIA; Africa; Europe; The Americas; History; Medical / General
First sentence: In the summer of 1347 rats and fleas infected with bubonic plague boarded Genoese merchant ships at Caffa on the Black Sea.