Water won't run uphill: The New Deal and malaria control in the American South, 1933-1940

Parassitologia

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 185-191

  Humphreys, M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaria; New deal; Twentieth century; U.S. History

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POLITICS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032086954     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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