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Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans /

A disease sui generis : yellow fever in world history -- Sugar fever : the rise of cane sugar and yellow fever in lower Louisiana, 1796-1850 -- Imagined immunities : ideologies of race, ecology, and disease resistance, 1840-1861 -- Reconstituting the South : built environments and public health, 186...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Willoughby, Urmi Engineer, 1980- (Autor, VerfasserIn.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:A disease sui generis : yellow fever in world history -- Sugar fever : the rise of cane sugar and yellow fever in lower Louisiana, 1796-1850 -- Imagined immunities : ideologies of race, ecology, and disease resistance, 1840-1861 -- Reconstituting the South : built environments and public health, 1861-1878 -- Degrees of resistance : reimagining race, health, and the environment, 1878-1905 -- "Mosquito or man?" : imperialism and the rise of tropical medicine, 1878-1912 -- Epilogue : yellow fever past and present
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages): Diagramme
ISBN:9780807167755