LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alison bashford

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  • The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
    Alison Bashford / Joyce E. Chaplin / Joyce EChaplin
    An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus’s Essay is also persistently misunderstood...
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    45,60 €

  • Quarantine
    Alison Bashford
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    147,31 €

  • Quarantine
    Alison Bashford
    Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world’s oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. This book offers new histories and geog...
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    46,69 €

  • Medicine at the Border
    Alison Bashford
    The threat of global pandemic disease is currently mobilizing experts, governments, and the exploding industry in ’security’; and yet this has all happened before. Medicine at the Border explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Alison Bashford places world health in world history, microbes an...
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    133,94 €

  • Pacific Histories
    Alison Bashford / David Armitage
    The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its inhabitants and the lands within and around it over 50,000 years, with special attention to the peoples of Oceania. It providing chronol...
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    54,34 €

  • Imperial Hygiene
    Alison Bashford
    This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Australia as case studies, the book examines public health as spatialized biopolitical ...
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    169,70 €