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