biological pestilence historical environment

books:

The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease

Cambridge University Press, 2003

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge in 1993. The basis of this Dictionary is Part VIII, the last section of the work, that comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today in chapters organized alphabetically from "Acquired Immune Deficient Syndrome (AIDS)" to "Yellow Fever." The last section of CWHHD has been fully revised and the essays have been ...

Plague, Pox and Pestilence

1 review
Kenneth F. (editor) Kiple

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited, 1997

nice book for the commoner :)
This is a wonderful history of diseases written in a non-technical form. Easy to understand and very engrossing. The art work is very nice as well.

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 1993

Outstanding Reference Source
This tome is exhaustive in the diseases it covers and the way it covers them. Kiple provides epidemiological patterns, history and geography, and skeletal manifestations on each of the conditions he and the board of editors describes. What the book lacks in pictures and diagrams, it makes up for in length and completeness of description. A helpful bibliography is provided. This book is well ...

Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease and Racism
Kenneth F. Kiple, Virginia Himmelsteib King

Cambridge University Press, 1981

This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nutritional, biological, and medical sciences with demography. The book begins with an examination of the pre-slavery era in Africa and then pursues its subject into the slave societies of the West Indies and the United States. This truly interdisciplinary approach permits the blending of two ...

A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization

7 reviews
Kenneth F. Kiple

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Read it!
Scholarly yet clear, fast and easy paced. You do not need to be a foodie to read this book. Anyone with any interest in knowledge in human interaction will find this book invaluable.

The Cambridge World History of Food

12 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 2000

Food for thinking with
Part of the dissatisfaction among some reviewers is that this book is not a light, cheerful cook-book/dictionary. For those who want something more along those lines, there are plenty of light-weight volumes that purport to tell the story of this or that cooking tradition with lots of nice glossy pictures and maybe more than three accurate facts if you're really lucky. Try Jane and Michael ...

Food in Colonial and Federal America.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Kenneth F. Kiple

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 580 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Food in Colonial and Federal America.(Book review) ...

The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History (Studies in Environment and History)
Kenneth F. Kiple

Cambridge University Press, 1985

This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors in their West African homeland and examines the ways in which the nutritional and disease environments of that area had shaped its inhabitants. In a particularly innovative chapter, he considers the epidemiological ...

Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of ...
Kenneth F. Kiple

Southern Historical Association, 2003

This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on August 1, 2003. The length of the article is 601 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Malaria: Poverty, Race, ...

search for books
biological, environment, globalization, historical, pestilence

Impressum / about us