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

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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.
Temas:
Infektionskrankheit
Kolonialismus
Indigenes Volk
Public health.
Poverty.
Poor > Health and hygiene.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
Communicable diseases.
Chronic diseases > Psychological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Sante publique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Pauvrete > États-Unis > Histoire.
Maladies infectieuses > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discrimination à l'egard des personnes handicapees > États-Unis > Histoire.
Pauvres > Sante et hygiene > États-Unis > Histoire.
Maladies chroniques > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique > Histoire.
Colonialism > history
Prejudice > history
Poverty > history
Public Health > history
Disease Outbreaks > history
Public health > United States > History.
Poverty > United States > History.
Communicable diseases > United States > History.
Discrimination against people with disabilities > United States > History.
Poor > Health and hygiene > United States > History.
Chronic diseases > United States > Psychological aspects > History.
USA
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Of apples and Edens
  • The transformation of native America
  • Of plagues and peoples
  • Virginity and virulence
  • Natives and newcomers
  • Merchants and maladies
  • Commerce and consequence
  • Contested colonies
  • Planters and pestilence
  • Landscapes and liabilities
  • Poverty and pestilence beyond the big house
  • Measuring the lands
  • Measured lands and multitudes.

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