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Author Hutchinson, Dale L., author.

Title Disease and discrimination : poverty and pestilence in colonial Atlantic America / Dale L. Hutchinson
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
©2016

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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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
Disease Outbreaks -- history
Public Health -- history
Poverty -- history
Prejudice -- history
Colonialism -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects
Communicable diseases
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Poor -- Health and hygiene
Poverty
Public health
Indigenes Volk
Kolonialismus
Infektionskrankheit
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0813055946
9780813055947
9780813051789
0813051789