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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2016]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0813055946 9780813055947 9780813051789 0813051789 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 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.