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Avoiding the Dire Straits : an inquiry into Food Provisions and Scurvy in Maritime and Military History of China and wider East Asia.
Scurvy is known to be one of the most gruesome pathological phenomena that, in the course of centuries, has made innumerable victims. Long distance seafaring operations, war zones, prisons and crop failures all created breeding grounds for the vitamin C defi ciency disease, which was commonly charac...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2014.
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| Series: | East Asian economic and socio-cultural studies. East Asian maritime history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |