
Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
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Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar production, slavery, and urban development.
Urmi Engineer Willoughby is assistant professor of history at Murray State University. She studies the history of disease and medicine from a global and ecological perspective.
ISBN: 9780807167748
Hardcover
264 pages
7 x 9
Bibliography, Index, Illustrated, Maps
LSU Press, 2017



