Böcker av Frank M. Snowden

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola

This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera edipemics of 1884 and 1910-11. The disease is related to larger historical issues, such as the nature of liberal statecraft, the 'Southern Question', mass emigration, organised crime, and the medical profession.

Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy is a powerful investigation of the appallingly grim conditions in the teeming agricultural centres of the region and a vivid history of the struggle by the farm workers to win the ordinary decencies of life - clothes, clean water, and bread.

In this account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Snowden shows that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. He sheds light on the reasons for the absence in antiquity of virulent color prejudice and for the difference in attitudes of whites toward blacks in ancient and modern societies.