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Alfred W. Crosby

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#288

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According to Wikipedia, Alfred Worcester Crosby Jr. was professor of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and University of Helsinki. He was the author of books including The Columbian Exchange and Ecological Imperialism . In these works, he provided biological and geographical explanations for the question why Europeans were able to succeed with relative ease in what he referred to as the "Neo-Europes" of Australasia, North America, and southern South America. America's Forgotten Pandemic is the first major critical history of the 1918 "Spanish" Flu.

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Alfred W. Crosby's Published Works

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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1987) (1286)
The Columbian exchange : biological and cultural consequences of 1492 (1973) (813)
The Columbian Exchange: Biblogical and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1975) (320)
The measure of reality : quantification and Western society, 1250-1600 (1996) (289)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (2003) (257)
Virgin soil epidemics as a factor in the aboriginal depopulation in America. (1976) (186)
Health and the rise of civilization (1990) (178)
America''s Forgotten Pandemic (2003) (145)
Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 (1998) (114)
Invisible Invaders: Smallpox and Other Diseases in Aboriginal Australia, 1780-1880 (2002) (97)
The Measure Of Reality (1996) (92)
The Past and Present of Environmental History (1995) (90)
The Early History of Syphilis: A Reappraisal (1969) (79)
Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (1977) (79)
Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy (2006) (68)
A Biohistory of Health and Behavior in the Georgia Bight: The Agricultural Transition and the Impact of European Contact (2002) (46)
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE (2019) (36)
Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History (2002) (36)
The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America (2003) (31)
The Ends of the Earth: Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon (1989) (31)
Conquistador y Pestilencia: The First New World Pandemic and the Fall of the Great Indian Empires (1967) (16)
Germs, seeds & animals : studies in ecological history (1994) (14)
Epidemics and ideas: Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience (1992) (13)
Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in Ecological History: Studies in Ecological History (1994) (13)
Language Death, Language Genesis, and World History* (1995) (12)
A Leap in the Dark : Aids, Art and Contemporary Cultures (1992) (12)
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe (1997) (11)
:Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. (2005) (9)
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (review) (2006) (8)
America, Russia, hemp, and Napoleon: American trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1783-1812 (1966) (8)
The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians. Essays on Global and Comparative History. (1987) (7)
The New Model (1996) (7)
Infectious Disease and the Demography of the Atlantic Peoples (1991) (7)
An Ecohistory of the Canary Islands: A Precursor of European Colonialization in the New World and Australasia (1984) (6)
An Enthusiastic Second (1990) (5)
Aspects of the History of Medicine in Latin America (1981) (4)
A Renaissance Change in European Cognition (1990) (4)
The Measure of Reality by Alfred W. Crosby (1996) (3)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: Flu and the American Expeditionary Force (2003) (2)
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (review) (2002) (2)
God... would destroy them, and give their country to another people. (1978) (2)
Micro-organisms and extraterrestrial travel (2009) (2)
Where Did the Flu of 1918 Go (2003) (1)
Food in Global History (review) (2002) (1)
Ecological Imperialism: Within reach, beyond grasp (2004) (1)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Advance of the Influenza Virus (2003) (1)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: An Inquiry into the Peculiarities of Human Memory (2003) (1)
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa (review) (2000) (1)
Biotic Change in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand (1986) (1)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: Three Explosions—Africa, Europe, and America (2003) (1)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: Samoa and Alaska (2003) (1)
Book Review:The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts Edward Grant (1997) (1)
Chemistry analyzers (for low-volume laboratories) (2002) (1)
The Voyages of Columbus: A Turning Point in World History. (1989) (0)
Thomas Mckeown, The origins ofhuman disease , Oxford and New York, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. vi, 233, £22.50. (1989) (0)
Ecological Imperialism: Animals (2004) (0)
The Measure of Reality: Music (1996) (0)
Spanish Influenza Sweeps the Country (2003) (0)
The Norse and the Crusaders (2015) (0)
America, Russia, hemp, and Napoleon: a study of trade between the United States and Russia, 1783-1814 (1961) (0)
Voyagers to the New World (1987) (0)
Visualization: An Introduction (1996) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in Global Perspective (review) (2004) (0)
Further Reading (2004) (0)
The Measure of Reality: Mathematics (1996) (0)
The Measure of Reality: Pantometry: An Introduction (1996) (0)
Book Review:Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano (1992) (0)
Ecological Imperialism: Pangaea revisited, the Neolithic reconsidered (2004) (0)
Flu in San Francisco (2003) (0)
Book Review: The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, by Richard B. Morris (1966) (0)
Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 (review) (2006) (0)
Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers and Land [Book Review] (1987) (0)
Necessary but Insufficient Causes (1996) (0)
Medicine in Mexico. From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons (1969) (0)
Book Review: Was America a Mistake? An Eighteenth-Century Controversy, by Henry Steele Commager and Elmo Giordanetti (1968) (0)
The Measure of Reality: The Venerable Model (1996) (0)
Maize, Land, Demography and the American Character (1991) (0)
Statistics, Definitions, and Speculation (2003) (0)
Grand History as Environmental History (2013) (0)
Book Review:The Black Death and the Transformation of the West David Herlihy, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (1998) (0)
Pangaea revisited, the Neolithic reconsidered (2015) (0)
Book Review: The Peace of Christmas Eve, by Fred L. Engleman. (1963) (0)
Masters of Energy (2008) (0)
Flu in Philadelphia (2003) (0)
Russell Thornton. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492. (Civilization of the American Indian Series, number 186.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1987. Pp. xx, 292. $29.95 (1989) (0)
Virginia DeJohn Anderson. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 322. $37.50 (2005) (0)
Adhesion and Bulk Mechanical Properties of Thermoreversible Gels Based on Acrylic Triblock Copolymers (2000) (0)
Ecological Imperialism: Prologue (2004) (0)
Spanish Influenza: The First Wave—Spring and Summer, 1918 (2003) (0)
Emerging Infections6.Edited byW Michael Scheld, Barbara E Murray, and, James M Hughes.Washington (DC): ASM Press. $84.95 (paper). xvii + 210 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 1–55581–242–2. 2004. (2004) (0)
The Fortunate Isles (2015) (0)
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (2012) (0)
Notes of a Potato Watcher (review) (2002) (0)
Infection: The Uninvited Universe.ByGerald N Callahan.New York: St. Martin’s Press.$24.95. xv + 288 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐312‐34846‐0. 2006. (2007) (0)
Demographic Collapse: Disease mortality models (1982) (0)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: Preface to the New Edition (2003) (0)
Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1997. Pp. xv, 344. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95 (1998) (0)
Book Review:Western Civilization in Biological Perspective: Patterns in Biohistory Stephen Boyden (1989) (0)
Review Article: Globalization as Boon or Curse (2003) (0)
The Measure of Reality: Painting (1996) (0)
Research, Frustration, and the Isolation of the Virus (2003) (0)
A Good Try t Organizing World History Environmentally (2002) (0)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The United States Begins to Take Note (2003) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2004) (0)
Physical Anthropology (1970) (0)
Ecological Imperialism: Notes (2004) (0)
Historical Interpretations of the Columbian Voyages (1989) (0)
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. By William R. Catton, Jr. (Urbana, Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press, 1980, xvii + 298 pp. Notes and bibliography.) (1982) (0)
N. Whitehead The search for history in the native Caribbean and South America In: New West Indian Guide/ Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (2006) (0)
The history of healing laid bare (1998) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World John F. Richards (2004) (0)
Appendix: What was the “smallpox” in New South Wales in 1789? (2015) (0)
Adhesion of Topographically Patterned Elastomers (2004) (0)
Ecological Imperialism: The Fortunate Isles (2004) (0)
Their Number Become Thinned: Native American Population Dynamics in Eastern North America Henry F. Dobyns (1984) (0)
Systematic Adhesion: Controlling Interfacial Strength through Patterning (2004) (0)
Columbus and Ecological Imperialism. (1992) (0)
Book Review: The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801, by Alexander DeConde (1967) (0)
Further Reading (1985) (0)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: Flu at Sea on the Voyage to France (2003) (0)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Great Shadow (2003) (0)
America's Forgotten Pandemic: Flu and the Paris Peace Conference (2003) (0)
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (review) (2006) (0)

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