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The pox of liberty : how the Constitution left Americans rich, free, and prone to infection / Werner Troesken.
Van Pelt Library KF3775 .T764 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Troesken, Werner, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Markets and governments in economic history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health laws--United States--History.
- Public health laws.
- Public health--United States--History.
- Public health.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- An introduction
- From the ideology of the township to the gospel of germs
- The constitutional foundations of health and prosperity
- The pox of liberty
- The palliative effects of property rights
- Empire, federalism, and the surprising fall of yellow fever
- Concluding remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226922171
- 0226922170
- 0226922197
- 9780226922195
- OCLC:
- 890360521
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