On the political economy of plant disease epidemics :
[Book]
capita selecta in historical epidemiology
J.C. Zadoks.
Wageningen
Wageningen Academic Publishers
2008
249 p. : ill., fig., tab. ; 24 cm.
Food security has been and always will be a human concern. Food security has always been fragile, threatened by a variety of factors including plant disease epidemics. Several plant disease epidemics of the past lead to questions like: What happened? How did people deal with these epidemics? What were the social and political consequences?