Die Ankunft europäischer Kolonisatoren bedeutete für die Ureinwohner Nordamerikas den Beginn einer Tragödie, die bis heute kaum vollständig erzählt ist.
This volume aims to take up the theme of the relationship between faith and pestilence, which, despite its topicality, is rooted in a long-term dimension that involves different areas of knowledge.
How human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable.
Durant mil·lennis una humanitat molt vulnerable ha hagut d'enfrontar-se a enemics com la pobresa, la fam, la brutícia, les infeccions, la intolerància, la violència, els tractaments mèdics erronis…Des d'una mirada universal i humanista, el metge Jordi Varela narra la llarga lluita dels humans per assolir una bona salut i per evitar tot allò que ha amenaçat la nostra vida.
'There is no aspect of Victorian death that does not make it into Judith Flanders's latest investigation into 19th-century life' - The Sunday Times'Flanders writes with sharp intelligence and first-class scholarly attention to detail' - The TelegraphIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally - to modern eyes - bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain.
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex.
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex.
This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective.
'Brilliant, unpredictable and endlessly fascinating' IAN MORTIMER'I love this book' TRACY BORMAN'Gunn and Gromelski cast a brilliant light into a lost world' SUSAN BRIGDENA unique new window onto Tudor life, told through ordinary people's untimely deaths.
Este volumen se centra en la comprensión y explicación de los efectos que tuvieron las epidemias en las parroquias del obispado de Guadalajara durante el primer tercio del siglo XIX, con el objeto de mostrar el impacto diferenciado durante la transición entre la época colonial y el periodo independiente.
Verfaultes Korn im Brot, gepanschter Wein, Pferdefleisch in der Lasagne, Hühner im Käfig oder Metallspäne in der Milch – die Liste der Lebensmittelskandale ist lang.
The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable.
La batalla incierta de la guerra silenciosa sin toques de queda, sin hambrunas en la puerta, se viste de pandemia como ya pasara en la Antigüedad, restando a la humanidad capacidades y libertades.
@CoronaVid19, el virus que ha contagiado Twitter de sátira y humor negro, revela el plan secreto de las pandemias más letales de la historia para acabar con la humanidad.
King John - William Shakespeare - The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 11991216), the son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Henry III of England.
