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    America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

    Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin)

    The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919 claimed over 25 million lives worldwide. In America’s Forgotten Pandemic, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic and measures its…

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    America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

    Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin)

    The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919 claimed over 25 million lives worldwide. In America’s Forgotten Pandemic, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic and measures its…

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    Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History

    Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin)

    In Throwing Fire, historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities, allowing us to create simple weapons and atomic bombs…

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    The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600

    Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin)

    This book discusses the shift from qualitative to quantitative perception which occurred in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance and which was to lead to western domination…

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    The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600

    Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin)

    This 1997 book discusses the shift from qualitative to quantitative perception which occurred in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance and which was to lead to western…

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    Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History

    Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin)

    A history of hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities.

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    Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

    Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin)

    As Alfred Crosby explains in his highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans’ displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology…

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