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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-12-01
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0226218120
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Epidemic Invasions pdf
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In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. Originating in Cuba, the deadly plague inspired disease-control measures that not only protected U.S. trade interests but also justified the political and economic domination of the island nation from which the pestilence came. By focusing on yellow fever, Epidemic Invasions uncovers for the first time how the devastating power of this virus profoundly shaped the relationship between the two countries. Yellow fever in Cuba, Mariola Espinosa demonstrates, motivated the United States to declare war against Spain in 1898, and, after the war was won and the disease eradicated, the United States demanded that Cuba pledge in its new constitution to maintain the sanitation standards established during the occupation. By situating the history of the fight against yellow fever within its poli Download Epidemic Invasions for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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