Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan

Ann Bowman Jannetta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-63812-6 (ISBN)

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Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on the medical literature on epidemic diseases, on previously unknown evidence in Buddhist temple registers, and on rich documentary evidence from contemporary observers in Japan. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF TABLES, pg. ix*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xvii*I. Introduction, pg. 1*II. Epidemic Diseases and Human Populations, pg. 16*III. The Japanese Sources, pg. 33*IV. Smallpox: The Most Terrible Minister of Death, pg. 61*V. Measles: An Epidemiological Puzzle, pg. 108*VI. Dysentery and Cholera: Early and Late Arrivals, pg. 145*VII. Epidemics and Famine, pg. 173*VIII. Conclusions, pg. 188*GLOSSARY, pg. 209*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 211*INDEX, pg. 219

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	0-691-63812-8 / 0691638128
ISBN-13	978-0-691-63812-6 / 9780691638126
Zustand	Neuware