Myron Echenberg: 3 books
Humboldt's Mexico
In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world’s most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. Humboldt’s breath-taking explorations of Mexico and South America from 1799 to 1804...
Plague Ports
The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first...
Africa in the Time of Cholera
A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony...