Disease and discrimination : poverty and pestilence in colonial Atlantic America /
Hutchinson, Dale L.,
Disease and discrimination : poverty and pestilence in colonial Atlantic America / Dale L. Hutchinson. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2016. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780813055947
Chronic diseases--Psychological aspects--History.--United States
Poor--Health and hygiene--History.--United States
Discrimination against people with disabilities--History.--United States
Communicable diseases--History.--United States
Poverty--History.--United States
Public health--History.--United States
Disease Outbreaks--history.
Public Health--history.
Poverty--history.
Prejudice--history.
Colonialism--history.
Electronic Books.
RA644 / .D574 2016
Disease and discrimination : poverty and pestilence in colonial Atlantic America / Dale L. Hutchinson. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2016. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780813055947
Chronic diseases--Psychological aspects--History.--United States
Poor--Health and hygiene--History.--United States
Discrimination against people with disabilities--History.--United States
Communicable diseases--History.--United States
Poverty--History.--United States
Public health--History.--United States
Disease Outbreaks--history.
Public Health--history.
Poverty--history.
Prejudice--history.
Colonialism--history.
Electronic Books.
RA644 / .D574 2016