Malaria and technological networks: Medical geography in the Pontine Marshes, Italy, in the 1930s

Geographical Journal

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-155

  Caprotti, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fascism; Italy; Medical geography; Nature; Pontine marshes

Indexed keywords

CIVILIZATION; EMPLOYMENT; LAND RECLAMATION; MALARIA; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MODERNIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745053126     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: 14754959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2006.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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