Epidemics and War

The Impact of Disease on Major Conflicts in History

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2018
ABC-CLIO (Verlag)
978-1-4408-5224-4 (ISBN)

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Through its coverage of 19 epidemics associated with a broad range of wars, and blending medical knowledge, demographics, geographic, and medical information with historical and military insights, this book reveals the complex relationship between epidemics and wars throughout history.
How did small pox have a tremendous effect on two distinct periods of war—one in which the disease devastated entire native armies and leadership, and the other in which technological advancements and the application of medical knowledge concerning the disease preserved an army and as a result changed the course of events? Epidemics and War: The Impact of Disease on Major Conflicts in History examines fascinating historical questions like this and dozens more, exploring a plethora of communicable diseases—viral, fungal, and/or bacterial in nature—that spread and impacted wars or were spread by some aspect of mass human conflict.

Written by historians, medical doctors, and people with military backgrounds, the book presents a variety of viewpoints and research approaches. Each chapter examines an epidemic in relation to a period of war, demonstrating how the two impacted each other and affected the populations involved directly and indirectly. Starting with three still unknown/unidentified epidemics (ranging from Classical Athens to the Battle of Bosworth in England), the book's chapters explore a plethora of diseases that spread through wars or significantly impacted wars. The book also examines how long-ended wars can play a role in the spread of epidemics a generation later, as seen in the 21st-century mumps epidemic in Bosnia, 15 to 20 years after the Bosnian conflicts of the 1990s.

Rebecca M. Seaman, PhD, is dean of social sciences and humanities at Olympic College in Bremerton, WA.

Preface
PART I: Contested Epidemics during Well-Known Conflicts: Introduction
Rebecca M. Seaman
Chapter 1: Plague of Athens: A Fate More Terrible Than the Spartans, 430–426 BCE
Christopher Howell
Chapter 2: The Antonine Plague: Unknown Death within the Roman Empire, 165–180 CE
Brenda Thacker
Chapter 3: English Sweating Sickness and the Battle of Bosworth: Misfortune or Retribution, 1485 CE
Edwin Wollert
PART II: Bacterial Epidemics in the Context of Wars: Introduction
Rebecca M. Seaman
Chapter 4: The Black Death and Nation-State Wars of the 14th Century: Environment, Epigenetics, Excess, and Expiation, 1346–1450
Sarah Douglas
Chapter 5: Typhus: Napoleon's Tragic Invasion of Russia, the War of 1812
John Jennings White III
Chapter 6: Cholera: Dread Disease of the Crimean War, 1854–1855
Rebecca M. Seaman
Chapter 7: Typhoid Fever: Failure in the Midst of Victory in the Spanish-American War, 1898
Hilary Green
Chapter 8: Diphtheria in the Tajikistan War: Circumventing Post–World War II Medical Advances, 1992–1994
Rebecca M. Seaman
PART III: Viral Epidemics in the Context of Wars: Introduction
Rebecca M. Seaman
Chapter 9: Smallpox: Ensuring the Destruction of Armies in Colonial New Spain and Peru, 1518–1625
Angela Thompson
Chapter 10: Smallpox: Ensuring the Survival of an Army in Revolutionary America, 1775–1783
Arthur Boylston
Chapter 11: Yellow Fever: Unexpected Ally in the Haitian Revolution, 1802–1803
Christopher Davis
Chapter 12: Measles in World War I: Pestilence within Mobilization Camps and Transport Ships, 1915–1919
Sonia Valencia and Rebecca M. Seaman
Chapter 13: Influenza during World War I: The Great Flu Pandemic, 1916–1919
Jillion Becker
Chapter 14: Colonialism and War as Drivers of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2003
Wesley Renfro
Chapter 15: Mumps: Lasting Remnant of the Bosnian War, 1992–2012
Rebecca M. Seaman
PART IV: Epidemics of Mixed Origins during Wartime: Introduction
Rebecca M. Seaman
Chapter 16: Malaria: Continuing Pestilence from World War II to the Vietnam War, 1939–1975
Larry Grant
Chapter 17: Dysentery in the American Civil War: An Inverse Force Multiplier, 1861–1865
Joshua M. Seaman
Chapter 18: Pneumonia in the American Civil War: Death Knell of the Sick and Invalid, 1861–1865
Rebecca M. Seaman
Epilogue: Epidemics and Wars in the Context of Historical Inquiry
Rebecca M. Seaman
Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	1 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	964 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4408-5224-3 / 1440852243
ISBN-13	978-1-4408-5224-4 / 9781440852244
Zustand	Neuware