| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.4

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Book Review

Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy. By Robert Sallares. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 341 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00.

Robert Sallares believes that "the history of diseases stands on the threshold of a revolution; a revolution created by the application of ... new techniques of molecular biology to human skeletal remains excavated on archaeological sites" (p. vii). Although such methods are only beginning to inform the topic of this book, malaria and ancient Rome, the author's insistence upon using multiple disciplines to write the history of disease makes this work a model for disease historiography. Sallares does not flinch from the complex sciences of genetics or parasitology, while he is equally at home in deciphering the Greek and Latin of ancient sources. The result is a convincing demonstration that falciparum malaria was a major determinant of health, prosperity, and settlement patterns in the ancient Roman world.

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