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Yellow fever, race, and ecology in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Urmi Engineer Willoughby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willoughby, Urmi Engineer, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Natural world of the Gulf South
- The natural world of the Gulf South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellow fever--Louisiana--New Orleans--19th century.
- Yellow fever.
- Yellow fever--Louisiana--History--19th century.
- History.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Yellow Fever--epidemiology.
- Yellow Fever--ethnology.
- Yellow Fever--history.
- New Orleans--epidemiology.
- New Orleans--ethnology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Yellow Fever--epidemiology.
- Yellow Fever--ethnology.
- Yellow Fever--history.
- New Orleans--epidemiology.
- New Orleans--ethnology.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807167748
- 0807167746
- OCLC:
- 983825638
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