Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- 2 “Exhausting the Earth”: environment and history in the early modern world
- 3 Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900
- 4 Technological transitions
- 5 Patterns of urbanization, 1400 to 1800
- 6 Gender and sexuality
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
3 - Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900
from Part One - Global matrices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- 2 “Exhausting the Earth”: environment and history in the early modern world
- 3 Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900
- 4 Technological transitions
- 5 Patterns of urbanization, 1400 to 1800
- 6 Gender and sexuality
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
Summary
Some of the upheavals, such as the Eurasian outbreak of Black Death of the fourteenth century and the introduction of Old World diseases to the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, had such broad historical consequences that they seem to stand categorically outside of earlier human experience. The common cold was almost certainly among the first of the Old World viruses to infect individuals in the Caribbean. Beginning in the middle of the seventeenth century, a second wave of infections from the Old World crossed the Atlantic and opened a new chapter in the global integration of infectious disease such as falciparum malaria and yellow fever. The third wave of infections from seventeenth century into middle of the nineteenth century is bubonic plague confined for centuries to the expanses of Eurasia, breaking out periodically. In Northern Africa and Eurasia, the disease burden was substantially different, because many of the tropical diseases could not be transmitted in other ecological zones.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 54 - 75Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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