Philip D. Curtin

Disease and Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780521591690
• ISBN-10: 0521591694
• Artikelnr.: 22027146

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The West African disease background
2. The march to Magdala
3. The march to Kumasi
4. Conquest in the West African tropics, 1879-1900
5. Typhoid fever and the garrison of Egypt, 1882-1914
6. The typhoid campaigns: Northeastern Africa in the 1880s
7. The last campaigns in Eastern Africa: Madagascar and Omdurman, 1895-8
8. The Anglo-Boer War
9. Retrospect.