Parasites, pathogens, and progress : diseases and economic development
Robert A. McGuire; Philip R. P. Coelho
| Year of publication: |
c 2011
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| Authors: | McGuire, Robert A. ; Coelho, Philip R. |
| Other Persons: | Coelho, Philip R. (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press |
| Subject: | Epidemie | Epidemic | Morbidität | Morbidity | Bevölkerungswachstum | Population growth | Bevölkerungsstruktur | Demographic structure | Wirtschaftswachstum | Economic growth | Wirtschaftsgeschichte | Economic history | USA | United States | Parasitäre Krankheit | Komplexe Gesellschaft |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | VIII, 343 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | 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. |
| ISBN: | 0-262-01566-8 ; 978-0-262-01566-0 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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