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Bacteria and bayonets : the impact of disease in American military history /
A fascinating look at how microbes have affected war outcomes from colonial times to the present. Various powerful enemies from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee, have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier. Yet the deadliest enemy f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Casemate Publishers,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction; One Columbus Day or Contagion Day: Disease "Arrives" in America; Two "Deus Flavit Nasus et Dissipati Sunt": The Protestant Wind and the Catholic Flu; Three Pocahontas and the Plague: The English and Disease in the Conquest of the Colonies; Four "The Paths to Glory Lead but to the Grave": Disease in the Early French and Indian Wars; Five "Pestilence Gave Them a Common Death": Disease and the English Conquest of North America; Six Typhus and Taxation: Disease and the American Revolution.
- Seven A Nation Forged in Gout and expanded by Venereal Disease: A Medical Look at the Early RepublicEight Montezuma's Revenge: Disease and Manifest Destiny; Nine Johnny Dysentery and Billy Typhus: Disease and the Civil War; Ten Remember the Maine, to Hell with Yellow Fever: Imperialism and Illness; Eleven Love in the Age of Cholera, Warfare in the Age of Typhoid: Progressivism and Pestilence; Twelve Bullets, Bayonets, and Botulism: Biological Warfare in the Twentieth Century; Thirteen Al-Qaeda, Anthrax, and America: Terrorism and Disease in Post-Cold War America; Conclusion; Endnotes.