This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the South

The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, i

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