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Empire of Tropicality: Climatic Determinism in US-American Medicine and Public Health, 1898–1924

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Volume 30

Environment in History: International Perspectives



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Empire of Tropicality

Climatic Determinism in US-American Medicine and Public Health, 1898–1924

Julia Engelschalt

262 pages, 18 b&w illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80768-217-0 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Published (May 2027)

eISBN 978-1-80768-218-7 eBook


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By uniquely exploring tropicality as an inherently imperial form of medical environmentalism this book assessed the role that medical knowledge played in the history of the American Empire. From the beginning of overseas imperialism to the signing of the Pan-American Sanitary Code and taking into its orbit American colonies and the 'Deep South' it sheds new light on the development of medicine and public health in the early twentieth-century United States.



Subject: History: 20th Century to PresentEnvironmental Studies (General)Colonial History
Area: Latin America and the CaribbeanNorth America


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