Philip Curtin: Disease and Empire

Cover: 9780521598354 | Disease and Empire | Philip Curtin | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2012

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Beschreibung

Before the nineteenth century, European soldiers serving in the tropics died from disease at a rate several times higher than that of soldiers serving at home. Then, from about 1815 to 1914, the death rates of European soliders, both those serving at home and abroad, dropped by nearly 90%. But this drop applied mainly to soliders in barracks. Soldiers on campaign, especially in the tropics, continued to die from disease at rates as high as ever, in sharp contrast to the drop in barracks death rates. This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa, especially in the 1880s and 1890s. Curtin examines what was done, what was not done, and the impact of doctors' successes and failures on the willingness of Europeans to embark on imperial adventures.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. The West African disease background; 2. The march to Magdala; 3. The march to Kumasi; 4. Conquest in the West African tropics, 1879-1900; 5. Typhoid fever and the garrison of Egypt, 1882-1914; 6. The typhoid campaigns: Northeastern Africa in the 1880s; 7. The last campaigns in Eastern Africa: Madagascar and Omdurman, 1895-8; 8. The Anglo-Boer War; 9. Retrospect.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780521598354
ISBN-10:	0521598354
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Curtin, Philip
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Philip Curtin
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.04.2012
Gewicht:	0,474 kg