Environmental History, October 1st, 2003
Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy. By Robert Sallares. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 341 pp. illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00. Robert Sallares believes that "the history of diseases stands on the threshold of a revolution; a revolution created by the application of ... new techniques of molecular biology to human skeletal remains excavated on archaeological sites" (p. vii). Although such methods are only beginning to inform the topic of this book, malaria and ancient Rome, the author's insistence upon using multiple disc...
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