The Conquest of Malaria

The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (Hardcover)
by Frank Snowden (Author)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 304 pages
* Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (January 24, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0300108990

Book Description
"With this book, Snowden achieves two difficult goals. He demonstrates how important malaria was to the political and social history of Italy to the mid-twentieth century, an aspect of the country’s course underappreciated by its historians. Perhaps more importantly, he has crafted a marvelously detailed case study in the control of malaria, that shows how closely intertwined are the environmental, medical, social and political features of a landscape that nurtures the disease. Whether describing the temporary Fascist victory over malaria in the Pontine Marshes or the deliberate creation of malarial epidemics by retreating Nazis, Snowden’s lively account convinces the reader that as malaria goes, so goes Italy. This is a first rate, valuable book that belongs on the shelf of historian and malariologist alike

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