Parasites, pathogens, and progress : diseases and economic development / Robert A. McGuire, Philip R.P. Coelho.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: viii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780262015660
- 0262015668
- Parasitic diseases -- History
- Parasitic diseases -- Social aspects
- Parasitic diseases -- United States -- History
- Evolution (Biology) -- United States -- History
- Microbiology -- United States -- History
- Parasitic Diseases -- epidemiology -- United States
- Parasitic Diseases -- history -- United States
- History, 18th Century -- United States
- History, 19th Century -- United States
- Socioeconomic Factors -- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions
- RA 649 .M34 2011
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Main Campus Library General Stacks | RA 649 .M34 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A.K. | 2016/018257 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index.
Introduction : biology, diseases, and migration before the twentieth century -- Biology, diseases, and history : the big picture -- Diseases and long-run economic growth -- Colonists' choice of agricultural labor in early America -- Initial location of Africans and Europeans in early America -- Slavery and diseases in the antebellum American South -- Evidence on the spread of diseases in nineteenth-century America -- The biology and disease lesson.
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