Disease and discrimination : poverty and pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America / / Dale L. Hutchinson

• Autore: Hutchinson Dale L.
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 616/.044086942
• Soggetto topico: Chronic diseases - United States - Psychological aspects - History; Poor - Health and hygiene - United States - History; Discrimination against people with disabilities - United States - History; Communicable diseases - United States - History; Poverty - United States - History; Public health - United States - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disease and discrimination
• ISBN: 0-8130-5178-9; 0-8130-5594-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821514203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II