Invisible armies
Subtitle: the impact of disease on American history
By: Howard N. Simpson.
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Diseases -- United States -- History.; Diseases and history -- United States.; United States -- History.; United States -- History, Military -- To 1900.
Description: Explores the neglected role disease has played in American history, posing the novel idea that susceptibility to sickness has meant weakness in war, from the first colonizations to the Civil War.