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Medicine and Empire: Healthcare, Diet and Disease in Portugal (1350–1550)

Beyond the Senegal: inventing the tropics in the late Middle Ages

Hugh CagleDepartment of History, University of Utah, 215 S. Central Campus Dr., Salt Lake City, UT84112, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 197-217 | Received 03 Mar 2015, Accepted 02 Jul 2015, Published online: 27 Aug 2015

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