Cargando…
Mosquito Soldiers : Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War /
Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies--malaria and yellow...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2010.
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_16666 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905041814.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 090706s2010 lau o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780807137376 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780807146637 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780807146644 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780807135617 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)659500446 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, |d 1970- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Mosquito Soldiers : |b Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War / |c Andrew McIlwaine Bell. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Baton Rouge : |b Louisiana State University Press, |c 2010. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2013 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2010. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (213 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Description based upon print version of record. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a PREFACE; Introduction; 1. Aedes, Anopheles, and the Scourges of the South; 2. The Glory of Gangrene and "Gallinippers"; 3. Mosquito Coasts; 4. "The Land of Flowers, Magnolias, and Chills"; Illustrations; 5. "The Pestilent Marshes of the Peninsula"; 6. "The Roughest Times Any Set of Soldiers Ever Encountered"; 7. Biological Warfare; Epilogue; APPENDIX 1. Incidence of Mosquito-Borne Disease, 1861-1865; APPENDIX 2. Common Diagnoses among Union Troops, 1861-1866; APPENDIX 3. Civil War Chronology; NOTES; SELECTED BIBILOGRAPHY; INDEX. | |
| 520 | |a Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies--malaria and yellow fever--on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War. | ||
| 546 | |a English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Yellow fever. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01182653 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Soldiers |x Diseases. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01125256 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Mosquitoes as carriers of disease. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01026797 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Malaria. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01006343 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Moustiques (Vecteurs de maladies) |z États-Unis |x Histoire |y 19e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Fievre jaune |z États-Unis |x Histoire |y 19e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Paludisme |z États-Unis |x Histoire |y 19e siecle. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Soldiers |x Diseases |z Confederate States of America |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Soldiers |x Diseases |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mosquitoes as carriers of disease |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Yellow fever |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Malaria |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States |z Confederate States of America. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01205435 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |x Health aspects. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/16666/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement | ||