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The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)
Bob H. Reinhardt
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Description for The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)
Hardcover. Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; MBNS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 825.
By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanished from North America and Europe but continued to persist throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. In 1965, the United States joined an international effort to eradicate the disease, and after fifteen years of steady progress, the effort succeeded. Bob H. Reinhardt demonstrates that the fight against smallpox drew American liberals into new and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as he narrates the history of the only cooperative international effort to successfully eliminate a disease.
Unlike other works that have chronicled the fight against smallpox by offering a ""biography"" of ... Read more
By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanished from North America and Europe but continued to persist throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. In 1965, the United States joined an international effort to eradicate the disease, and after fifteen years of steady progress, the effort succeeded. Bob H. Reinhardt demonstrates that the fight against smallpox drew American liberals into new and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as he narrates the history of the only cooperative international effort to successfully eliminate a disease.
Unlike other works that have chronicled the fight against smallpox by offering a ""biography"" of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469624099
SKU
V9781469624099
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About Bob H. Reinhardt
Bob H. Reinhardt is Executive Director of the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, Oregon, USA.
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