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

ISBN: 0521389224

ISBN13: 9780521389228

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

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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...

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