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Author:

Willoughby, Urmi Engineer, 1980- author.

Title:

Yellow fever, race, and ecology in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Urmi Engineer Willoughby.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Yellow fever--New Orleans--New Orleans--19th century.
Yellow fever--Louisiana--History--19th century.
Yellow fever.
Louisiana.
Louisiana--New Orleans.
Yellow Fever--epidemiology.
Yellow Fever--ethnology.
Yellow Fever--history.
New Orleans--epidemiology.
New Orleans--ethnology.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

The natural world of the Gulf South

ISBN:

0807167746
9780807167748

OCLC:

(OCoLC)983825638

LCCN:

2017019253

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)