Description
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“Fascinating yet sobering, this volume highlights the vital role that social and political causes of poverty and poor living conditions, beyond the presence of infectious pathogens themselves, play in disease epidemics and high mortality.”—Megan A. Perry, editor of Bioarchaeology and Behavior: The People of the Ancient Near East
“Hutchinson effectively argues that disease isn’t an event but a process after which wonderfully illustrates how the interaction of culture and illness shaped the history of the eastern seaboard from the sixteenth in the course of the nineteenth centuries.”—Marie Danforth, University of Southern Mississippi
Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class within the early American colonies. Many early colonists fell victim to mass sickness as Old and New World systems collided and new social, political, economic, and ecological dynamics allowed disease to spread.
Dale Hutchinson argues that the majority colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks because of their lower economic and social status. With examples ranging from indentured servitude within the Chesapeake to the housing and sewage systems of New York to the results of conflict between European powers, Hutchinson posits that poverty and living conditions, more so than microbes, were incessantly on the root of epidemics.
“Hutchinson effectively argues that disease isn’t an event but a process after which wonderfully illustrates how the interaction of culture and illness shaped the history of the eastern seaboard from the sixteenth in the course of the nineteenth centuries.”—Marie Danforth, University of Southern Mississippi
Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class within the early American colonies. Many early colonists fell victim to mass sickness as Old and New World systems collided and new social, political, economic, and ecological dynamics allowed disease to spread.
Dale Hutchinson argues that the majority colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks because of their lower economic and social status. With examples ranging from indentured servitude within the Chesapeake to the housing and sewage systems of New York to the results of conflict between European powers, Hutchinson posits that poverty and living conditions, more so than microbes, were incessantly on the root of epidemics.
&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/fragile-grounds-louisianas-endangered-cemeteries-americas-third-coast-series/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611ISCSTg6L._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
, Burgundy&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/lorren-home-trends-57-piece-mabel-bone-china-dinnerware-set-service-for-8-people-burgundy/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41AimBATwpL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
, Gold&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/lorren-home-trends-57-piece-chloe-bone-china-dinnerware-set-service-for-8-people-gold/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41vAh7TCsTL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
, Amber&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/gibson-elite-ocean-paradise-square-dinnerware-set-service-for-4-16pcs-amber/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/416%2B-aF7XVL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/pfaltzgraff-french-lace-white-dinnerware-set-32-piece/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Exlads5TL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
