Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and ImperialismA wide ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity plague, leprosy. smallpox, syphilis, cholera and yellow fever malaria over the last six centuries. Sheldon Watts, applies his perspective to the study of global disease, exploring the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa and in European homelands. He shows how the perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed