000			01885cam a2200241 4500
001			0521371627
008			091027t1989 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a0521371627
100			_aCurtin, Philip D.
245		0	_aDeath by migration: Europe's encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c1989
300			_a251; ill.,bibls.; BookFind
505			_aList of tables, figures, and maps; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The mortality revolution and the tropical world: relocation costs in the early nineteenth century; 2. Sanitation and tropical hygiene at mid-century; 3. Killing diseases of the tropical world; 4. Relocation costs in the late nineteenth century; 5. The revolution in hygiene and tropical medicine; 6. The pursuit of disease, 1870-1914; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
520			_aHardback
520			_aThis book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics between about 1815 and 1914. This study, however, has broader implications. For Europe itself, this was the crucial century of the 'mortality revolution', with its profound influence on European and world demographic history. For the history of medicine, this was the transitional century between the kind of medicine that had been practiced in Europe since classical times and the kind of scientific medicine that would be spawned by the germ theory of disease. For Europe's global, political and military relations, this was the final period for the European conquest. For all these reasons, the relocation costs of this period have great bearing on human history.
650			_aEUROPE
650			_aHISTORY OF MEDICINE
650			_aMILITARY MEDICINE, history
650			_aMORTALITY
650			_aSTATISTICS
650			_aTROPICAL MEDICINE, history
999			_c79966 _d79966