The Global Eradication of Smallpox
Professor Erez Manela, Harvard University

Wellcome Library, London

• Tuesday 17 June 2014, 2.00PM to 3:00pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
• Berrick Saul Building, University of York (map|getting to campus)

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The World Health Organization’s successful campaign for the global eradication of smallpox was one of the most important historical events of the post-war era. Yet what accounts for its success among the many failures and disappointments of international development efforts during the post-war decades? Considering this question sheds new light on a number of central aspects of post-war international history, including the puzzle of superpower collaboration amid Cold War conflict, the evolving relations between the global North and South in a postcolonial era, and the changing role of international organizations in international society.

About the speaker:

Professor Manela is a Professor of History at Harvard University, specialising in United States in the world and International History.

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