TY - JOUR
T1 - Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development
AU - Reinhardt, Bob H.
N1 - © 2012 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] historians have long assumed the importance of biological and ecological forces in human history, but rarely with such attention to economic data and theory as in Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - Environmental historians have long assumed the importance of biological and ecological forces in human history, but rarely with such attention to economic data and theory as in Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress. Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho’s analysis of antebellum disease environments suggests the potential value of the tools and methods of economic history, but the book also reveals the need for a more sophisticated approach to the relationships between humans, diseases, and environments.
AB - Environmental historians have long assumed the importance of biological and ecological forces in human history, but rarely with such attention to economic data and theory as in Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress. Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho’s analysis of antebellum disease environments suggests the potential value of the tools and methods of economic history, but the book also reveals the need for a more sophisticated approach to the relationships between humans, diseases, and environments.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/ems070
U2 - 10.1093/envhis/ems070
DO - 10.1093/envhis/ems070
M3 - Article
JO - Environmental History
JF - Environmental History
ER -
