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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century Tapa dura - 1995 - 1st Edición
de Antonio McDaniel
Primera línea
Disease and mortality were critical factors in differentiating population composition in the post-twentieth-century world.
Descripción de contraportada
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of emancipated and freeborn African Americans returned to Africa to colonize the area now known as Liberia. In this, the first systematic study of the demographic impact of this move on the migrants, Antonio McDaniel finds that the health of migrant populations depends on the adaptability of the individuals in the group, not on their race. McDaniel compares the mortality rates of the immigrants to those of other migrants to tropical areas. He finds that the interaction of biology and environment is more important for survival in tropical environments than the presumed innate immunological superiority of Africans. Moreover, he shows that though the Liberian immigrants' mortality levels were exceptionally high, their mortality patterns were consistent with those of other populations. McDaniel concludes that the greater the variance between the environment left and the environment entered, the higher the probability of contracting a new disease, and, in some cases, of death from these diseases. Additionally, a migrant's health can be affected by dietary changes, differences in local pathogens, inappropriate immunities, and increased risk of accidents due to unfamiliar surroundings. This book is a pioneering work of demography and an engrossing social-historical narrative. It will appeal to scholars in history, sociology, African studies, and African American studies.
Detalles
- Título Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century
- Autor Antonio McDaniel
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 213
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Fecha de publicación April 15, 1995
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780226557243 / 0226557243
- Peso 1.05 libras (0.48 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.33 x 6.31 x 0.7 pulgadas (23.70 x 16.03 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Immigrants - Mortality - Liberia - History -, African Americans - Mortality - Liberia -
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 94017959
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century (Population and Development Series)
de McDaniel, Antonio
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Usado - Bien
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226557243 / 0226557243
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Newport Coast, California, United States
- Precio
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EUR 95.41Envío gratuito a USA