Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N641.51409/1
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 208 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The First Six Cholera Pandemics, 1817-1947: 1. 'The fiend of pestilence' circles the globe; 2. Medical responses; 3. Cholera ravages Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894; 4. Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valle...
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Publisher
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2011.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Cholera--history--Africa
- Disease Outbreaks--history--Africa
- History, 19th Century--Africa
- History, 20th Century--Africa
- History, 21st Century--Africa
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"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher.
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Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
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African studies ; 114.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N641.51409/1
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ISBN
0521188202 (pbk.)
9781107001497 (hardback)
1107001498 (hardback)
9780521188203 (pbk.)
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614.514096
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991007978669702626
