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    Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800

    Serier serie Rethinking Borders
    The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders.This volume illuminates these issues from various ... Læs mere

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    1875-1914

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  • The Transformation of the World

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  • Empire:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

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  • Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

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  • Nation-States and Nationalisms

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  • Globalization

    A Short History

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism

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  • International History and International Relations

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