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Disease and Discrimination : Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America /

Hutchinson explores early colonial settlements and compares those that thrived with those that failed, investigating how disease did or did not affect the Native population nearby. Following the path of infection and disease, Hutchinson demonstrates that as America grew from backwoods to cities, pop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hutchinson, Dale L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Hutchinson explores early colonial settlements and compares those that thrived with those that failed, investigating how disease did or did not affect the Native population nearby. Following the path of infection and disease, Hutchinson demonstrates that as America grew from backwoods to cities, populations in every century were affected in many ways by disease, each one impacting different impoverished classes.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780813055947