Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0070582

Zusammenfassung

The applicant's expertise currently lies in the global and Atlantic history of ?the long 19th century". The aim of this Momentum project is to expand the applicant's research and area of expertise towards the global history of disease(s). Although the nineteenth century is often referred to as the Victorian 'Age of Pandemics', because of how diseases first affected all continents simultaneously then, various aspects of global health and sickness in the 19th century are not well researched. The applicant's interest is in histories of disease that attend to the importance of worldwide in...