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This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817.

This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817.

Myron Echenberg traces the social history of a large and diverse group of West Africans who served in Senegalese regiments of the French colonial army.

Tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the third bubonic plague.

The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world's most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. Humboldt's breath-taking explorations of Mexico and South America from 1799 to 1804 are akin to Europe's second "discovery" of the New World - this time, a scientific one. His Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain is a foundation...

A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced, Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three "pearls" of the Pacific, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in South America, Alexandria and Cape T...