Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa by Philip D. Curtin

Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa

Philip D. Curtin

256 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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Before the nineteenth century, European soldiers serving in the tropics died from disease at a rate several times higher than that of soldiers serving at home. Then, from about 1815 to 1914, the death rates of European soliders, both those serving...

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