Health and Disease in Human History A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader |
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Editor:
| Rotberg, Robert I. |
Series title: | Journal of Interdisciplinary History Readers Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-262-18207-2 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2000 |
Publisher: | MIT Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $16.75 |
Book Description:
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This collection of essays suggests the great extent to which exploration, settlement, agricultural growth, colonization, urbanization, and even human stature were influenced by environmental and epidemiological realities, as well as by political and economic responses to those realities.
This collection of essays suggests the great extent to which exploration, settlement, agricultural growth, colonization, urbanization, and even human stature were influenced by environmental and epidemiological realities, as well as by political and economic responses to those realities.