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Epidemics in Modern Asia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvRobert Peckham

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Epidemics have played a critical role in shaping modern Asia. Encompassing two centuries of Asian history, Robert Peckham explores the profound impact that infectious disease has had on societies across the region: from India to China and the Russian Far East. The book tracks the links between biology, history, and geopolitics, highlighting infectious disease's interdependencies with empire, modernization, revolution, nationalism, migration, and transnational patterns of trade. By examining the history of Asia through the lens of epidemics, Peckham vividly illustrates how society's material conditions are entangled with social and political processes, offering an entirely fresh perspective on Asia's transformation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-04-28
Mått156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt720 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Approaches to Asian History
Antal sidor378
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107084681

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'Richly researched and keenly argued, Robert Peckham puts epidemic disease at the centre of a modern history of Asia. From China to India, this book unravels a history in which biology and Asian modernities have shaped one another. In so doing, he freshly recasts our understanding of how disease and social worlds are linked in complex political ecologies with unexpected pasts.' Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge