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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willoughby, Urmi Engineer, 1980- (Author, VerfasserIn.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yellow fever
Yellow fever > Louisiana > History > 19th century.
Yellow fever > Louisiana > New Orleans > 19th century.
Louisiana > New Orleans
Louisiana
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages): Diagramme
ISBN:9780807167755

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