Biological Consequences Of The European Expansion 1450 1800

Author : Stephen V. Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351955300

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Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450–1800 by Stephen V. Beck Pdf

’Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.’ So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic impact, reflected in the articles here, there is no doubt that the arrival of new diseases with the Europeans (such as typhus and smallpox) had a catastrophic effect on the indigenous population of the Americas, and later of the Pacific. In the Americas, malaria and yellow fever also came with the slaves from Africa, themselves imported to work the depopulated land. These diseases placed Europeans at risk too, and with some resistance to both disease pools, Africans could have a better chance of survival. Also covered here is the controversy over the origins of syphilis, while the final essays look at agricultural consequences of the European expansion, in terms of nutrition both in North America and in Europe.

Author : Kenneth F. Kiple,Stephen V. Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Diseases and history
ISBN : OCLC:81586702

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Biological Consequences of European Expansion, 1450-1800 by Kenneth F. Kiple,Stephen V. Beck Pdf

Author : Helen Wheatley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351960076

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Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change by Helen Wheatley Pdf

This volume examines the ecological consequences of European expansion as a result of land use and resource exploitation. These environmental transformations could be as dramatic as the last Ice Age, but scholars have only begun to take full measure of the changes. The articles presented here provide a map of some of the more promising directions of historical research. Major themes include biological exchange, agriculture, extraction of forest and animal resources, interactions between indigenous and European methods of exploitation, and European approaches to regulation and conservation. A useful corrective to the frontier image of Europeans conquering the wilderness, this volume provides a rich picture of the diversity of European interests and the sometimes unexpected consequences of their approaches to the land.

Author : Nancy Krieger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199750351

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Epidemiology and the People's Health by Nancy Krieger Pdf

This concise, conceptually rich, and accessible book is a rallying cry for a return to the study and discussion of epidemiologic theory: what it is, why it matters, how it has changed over time, and its implications for improving population health and promoting health equity. By tracing its history and contours from ancient societies on through the development of--and debates within--contemporary epidemiology worldwide, Dr. Krieger shows how epidemiologic theory has long shaped epidemiologic practice, knowledge, and the politics of public health.

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199766239

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Colonial America by Alan Taylor Pdf

In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience. He focuses on the transatlantic and a transcontinental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flows of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas.

Author : Anthony Disney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351930680

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Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450–1800 by Anthony Disney Pdf

The first part of this volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last fifty years, with three further sections focusing on initial contacts, formal presences, and informal presences. Emphasis has been placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa before 1800 - the Portuguese, Dutch and English, without neglecting the role played by the French, Spanish, Scandinavians and others.

Author : J. R. McNeill,Erin Stewart Mauldin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118977538

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A Companion to Global Environmental History by J. R. McNeill,Erin Stewart Mauldin Pdf

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China

Author : Roger M. Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313355455

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Term Paper Resource Guide to Colonial American History by Roger M. Carpenter Pdf

With this guide, major help for term papers relating to Colonial American history has arrived in a volume sure to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Chock full of stimulating and creative term paper suggestions and vetted research resources focusing on the Colonial Era, this volume is indispensable for students, librarians, and instructors. Students from high school age to undergraduate will use it to get a jumpstart on assignments in Colonial American history with the hundreds of term paper suggestions and research information offered here in an easy-to-use format. Users can quickly choose from the 100 important events, ranging from the first attempt at colonization at the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Virginia, in 1585 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1791. With this book, the research experience is transformed and elevated. Term Paper Resource Guide to Colonial American Historyis a superb source to motivate and educate students who have a wide range of interests and talents. Coverage includes key wars and conflicts, establishment of colonies and colleges, legislation and treaties, religious events, exploration, publications, and more.

Author : Richard H. Steckel,Clark Spencer Larsen,Charlotte A. Roberts,Joerg Baten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108421959

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The Backbone of Europe by Richard H. Steckel,Clark Spencer Larsen,Charlotte A. Roberts,Joerg Baten Pdf

Represents the largest recorded dataset based on human skeletal remains from archaeological sites across the continent of Europe.

Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351890298

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The European Opportunity by Felipe Fernández-Armesto Pdf

These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores the means in terms of science, technology and material resources; part two examines the motives, primarily as a result of restricted resources in Europe; while part three concludes with the reasons that the expansion continued and grew - the momentum.

Author : Alan Bewell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801877902

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Romanticism and Colonial Disease by Alan Bewell Pdf

Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.

Author : Jose C. Moya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195166200

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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History by Jose C. Moya Pdf

This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745638010

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Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day by Mark Harrison Pdf

‘Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject.’ Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers State University In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. He explores how the rise of modern nation-states was closely linked to the threat posed by disease, and particularly infectious, epidemic diseases. He examines the ways in which disease and its treatment and prevention, changed over the centuries, under the impact of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and with the advent of scientific medicine. For the first time, the author integrates the history of disease in the West with a broader analysis of the rise of the modern world, as it was transformed by commerce, slavery, and colonial rule. Disease played a vital role in this process, easing European domination in some areas, limiting it in others. Harrison goes on to show how a new environment was produced in which poverty and education rather than geography became the main factors in the distribution of disease. Assuming no prior knowledge of the history of disease, Disease and the Modern World provides an invaluable introduction to one of the richest and most important areas of history. It will be essential reading for all undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the history of disease and medicine, and for anyone interested in how disease has shaped, and has been shaped by, the modern world.

Author : Alison Bashford,Claire Hooker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134540655

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Contagion by Alison Bashford,Claire Hooker Pdf

Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004258068

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Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic by Anonim Pdf

Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic offers a fresh look at the Atlantic turn in Ibero-American Studies. Taking the criticisms launched at Atlantic Studies as a starting point, contributors query and explore the viability of the Ibero-American Atlantic as a framework of research. Their essays take stock of theories, methodologies, debates and trends in recent scholarship, and set down pathways for future research. As a result, the contributions in this volume establish the historical reality of the Ibero-American Atlantic as well as its tremendous value for scholarship. Contributors are Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Harald E. Braun, David Brookshaw, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Daniela Flesler, Andrew Ginger, Eliga Gould, David Graizbord, Thomas Harrington, Luis Martín-Cabrera, José C. Moya, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Joan Ramon Resina, N. Michelle Shepherd, Lisa Vollendorf and Grady C. Wray.