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Balmis Expedition
The Spanish Empire's War Against Smallpox
Häftad, 2024
297 kr
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While the Spanish are often remembered for bringing smallpox and other diseases to the New World, little attention is paid to their efforts to eradicate one of the greatest killers in human history. In the middle of the Napoleonic Wars, King Charles IV funded and dispatched a humanitarian mission …
Politics of Disease
An American History from Columbus to Covid
Häftad, 2023
502 kr
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Even a pandemic is subject to politics. Disease has always been a catalyst for change, influencing wars, the rise and fall of leaders, economics, religion, art, and, most certainly, people's lives. Disease, as Covid demonstrates, can be politicized as well. While the pandemic that erupted in 2019 …
Tide of War
The Impact of Weather on Warfare
E-bok, 2018
226 kr
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The first comprehensive look at nature’s role on military history. Halley’s Comet helped to announce the fall of the Shang Dynasty in China, a solar eclipse frightened the Macedonian army enough at Pydna in 168 BC to ensure victory for the Romans, a massive rain storm turned the field of Agincourt …
1919-1920
The Years That Made the Modern World: The Years That Made the Modern World: The Years That Made the Modern World
Inbunden, 2026
374 kr
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