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The Rinderpest Campaigns

A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century

Amanda Kay McVety (Miami University)

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English
Cambridge University Press
29 July 2021
Amanda Kay McVety has written the first history of the international effort to eradicate rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - which began in the 1940s and ended in 2011. Rinderpest is the only other disease besides smallpox to have been eradicated, but very few people in the United States know about it, because it did not infect humans and never broke out in North America. In other parts of the world, however, rinderpest was a serious economic and social burden and the struggle against it was a critical part of the effort to fight poverty and hunger globally. McVety follows the deployment of rinderpest vaccines around the globe, exploring the role of the environment in the understanding of development, internationalism, and national security. She expands the standard Cold War narratives to show how these concepts were framed not only by economic and political concerns, but also by biological ones.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 151mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   470g
ISBN:   9781108434065
ISBN 10:   1108434061
Series:   Global and International History
Pages:   308
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction; 1. Rinderpest and the origins of international vooperation for disease control; 2. GIR-1: rinderpest in World War II; 3. 'Freedom from want': UNRRA's rinderpest campaigns; 4. The machinery of development: FAO's rinderpest campaigns; 5. Back to Grosse Ile: biological warfare in the postwar world; 6. 'Freedom from rinderpest'; Conclusion.

Amanda Kay McVety is Associate Professor of History at Miami University. She is the author of Enlightened Aid: US Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (2012) and has published articles in the journals Diplomatic History and The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Reviews for The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century

'In her innovative, engaging, and deeply-researched book, Amanda Kay McVety brilliantly recounts the history of Rinderpest and the international struggle to contain it. Putting biology and the environment at the center of postwar history, her book makes a valuable contribution to the study of twentieth-century internationalism(s) and global development.' Julia F. Irwin, University of South Florida, author of Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening 'A compelling, surprising, and elegantly written account of the disease that drew the world together. You'll never feel safe around cows again.' Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University, Illinois,author of Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development 'The book incorporates a broad array of primary sources, including archives from multiple countries and interviews with family and colleagues of scientific protagonists ... compellingly written ...' Susan D. Jones, The Journal of American History 'McVety has a lively style, and her evident enthusiasm for 'the idea of an international community united by shared hopes and fears' is engaging ...' John Landers, American Historical Review


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