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

By: McGuire, Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1948-.
Contributor(s): Coelho, Philip R. P.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-313) and index.Description: viii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780262015660; 0262015668.Subject(s): Parasitic diseases -- History | Parasitic diseases -- Social aspects | Parasitic diseases -- United States -- History | Evolution (Biology) -- United States -- History | Microbiology -- United States -- History | United States -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 330.973
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.
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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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