Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century

by Philip D. Curtin

Book Overview

From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange climate. Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every trading voyage, every military expedition beyond Europe, had its price in European lives lost. For European soldiers in the tropics at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this added cost in deaths from disease--the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521389224
• ISBN13: 9780521389228
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"