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Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism (1st Edition) by Sheldon J. Watts, Dr. Sheldon Watts Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-300-08087-5 / 0300080875 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-08087-2 / 9780300080872 This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity―plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria―over the last six centuries. It is also much more. Sheldon Watts, a cultural and social historian who has spent much of his career studying an |