Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Urmi Engineer Willoughby
Louisiana State University Press, 2017
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Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Willoughby analyses how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar, slavery, and urban development.
- ISBN-13
- 9780807167748
- ISBN-10
- 0807167746
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Publication date
- 2017-12-13
- Pages
- 264
- Dimensions
- 227x176x29
- Weight
- 333