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Author:

McGuire, Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1948-

Title:

Parasites, pathogens, and progress : diseases and economic development / Robert A. McGuire, Philip R.P. Coelho.

Publisher:

MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Parasitic diseases--History.
Parasitic diseases--Social aspects.
Parasitic diseases--United States--History.
Evolution (Biology)--United States--History.
Microbiology--United States--History.
United States--Economic conditions.
Parasitic Diseases--epidemiology--United States.
Parasitic Diseases--history--United States.
History, 18th Century--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
Socioeconomic Factors--United States.

Other Authors:

Coelho, Philip R. P.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0262015668
9780262015660

OCLC:

(OCoLC)678924617

LCCN:

2010046703

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)