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Disease and discrimination : poverty and pestilence in colonial Atlantic America
Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in the early American colonies. Dale Hutchinson argues that most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks due to their lower economic and social status. Hutchinson posits that poverty and livin...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville
: University Press of Florida
, 2017-2016
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813062693.001.0001 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Disease and discrimination |
| Author Notes: | Dale L. Hutchinson |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : Florida Scholarship Online / Archaeology Collection |
| Summary: | Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in the early American colonies. Dale Hutchinson argues that most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks due to their lower economic and social status. Hutchinson posits that poverty and living conditions, more so than microbes, were often at the root of epidemics. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2016.. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| ISBN: | 9780813051789 |
