Disease and discrimination: poverty and pestilence in colonial Atlantic America

Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in the early American colonies. Dale Hutchinson argues that most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks due to their lower economic and social status. Hutchinson posits that poverty and livin...

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1. Verfasser: Hutchinson, Dale L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville University Press of Florida 2017
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Zusammenfassung:Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in the early American colonies. Dale Hutchinson argues that most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks due to their lower economic and social status. Hutchinson posits that poverty and living conditions, more so than microbes, were often at the root of epidemics
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2016. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 online resource illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
ISBN:9780813051789
DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813062693.001.0001

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