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Edition: 3rd edition
Release: 2004-08-01
Publisher: Tempus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0752429639
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The Black Death first hit Europe in 1347, ripping through towns, villages, and families. Men, women, children, young and old succumbed to a painful, drawn-out death as pustules, abscesses, and boils erupted all over their bodies. Subsequent attacks of the disease, coming almost every decade, so limited the population that it was not until the 18th century that it managed to surpass the levels of the 1340s. For over 300 years, Europeans were stalked by death. In the end, this mysterious disease that had terrorized, terrified, and killed millions, disappeared as inexplicably as it had appeared. Download Plague (Black Death & Pestilence in Europe) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874

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Release: 1999-10
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0295978376
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In the late 1700s, when Euro-Americans began to visit the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures - among them the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookans - with a population conservatively estimated at over 180,000. A century later only about 35,000 were left. The change was brought about by the introduction of diseases that had originated in the Eastern Hemisphere, such as smallpox, malaria, measles, and influenza."The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence" examines the introduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the Northwest Coast culture area (present-day Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains, British Columbia west of the Coast Range, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and the effects of these new diseases on Native American population size, structure, interactions, and viability. The emphasis is on epidemic diseases and specific epidemic episodes. I Download The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications)

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Release: 1996-01-26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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ISBN/ASIN: 052155831X
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Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the "health" of society in general terms. Download Epidemics and Ideas for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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