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At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched the first national campaign to eradicate the disease...

This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare. A multidisciplin...

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola

This is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk, it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots, and religiosity, and it traces therapeutic strategies. This book is the first extended study of cholera in modern Italy, it sets Naples in a comparative international framework and relates the disease to larger historical...

The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark- and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins, the Greeks and Romans classified many of them as Ethiopians. In an effort to determine the role of black people in ancient civilization, Mr. Snowden examines a broad span of Greco-Roman experience--from the Homeric era...

At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched the first national campaign to eradicate the disease...

A vivid history of Apulian farm workers' struggle to win the ordinary decencies of life.

In this account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. He sheds light on the reasons for the absence in antiquity of virulent color prejudice and for the difference in attitudes of whites toward blacks in ancient and modern societies.

A detailed study of the social origins of the fascist recation in Tuscany, first published in 1989.

Malaria is one of the most important ¿emerging¿ or ¿resurgent¿ infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, this mosquito-borne infection is a leading cause of suffering, death, poverty, and underdevelopment in the world today. Every year 500 million people become severely ill from malaria and more than a million people die, the great majority of them women and children living in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008, it was estimate...

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All'inizio del XX secolo, la malaria era il problema principale della sanità pubblica italiana. Era causa di scarsa produttività, povertà e arretratezza economica, e aveva inoltre bloccato l'alfabetizzazione, limitato la partecipazione politica e indebolito l'esercito. Questo libro racconta in che modo l'Italia divenne il principale centro mondiale per lo sviluppo della malariologia, prima paese a lanciare una campagna nazionale per debellare ...

This is a detailed study of the social origins of the fascist reaction in Tuscany, which played a key role in the rise of Italian fascism to power. Tuscan fascism was second to none in its violence, organisational strength, intransigence and missionary zeal. The central question is who supported fascism, and why. To what extent did Tuscany, a major agricultural region, conform to national patterns? What are the implications of the pattern of s...

This is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera edipemics of 1884 and 1910 11.