Yellow fever, race, and ecology in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Urmi Engineer Willoughby.
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Natural world of the Gulf South.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.