Dale L Hutchinson

Disease and Discrimination

Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 304 Seiten
ISBN 0813062691
EAN 9780813062693
Veröffentlicht Juni 2016
Verlag/Hersteller University Press of Florida
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Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in 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 most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks due to their lower economic and social status. With examples ranging from indentured servitude in the Chesapeake to the housing and sewage systems of New York to the effects of conflict between European powers, Hutchinson posits that poverty and living conditions, more so than microbes, were often at the root of epidemics.

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Dale L. Hutchinson is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, USA. He is the author of Foraging, Farming, and Coastal Biocultural Adaptation in Late Prehistoric North Carolina and Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast: Adaptation, Conflict, and Change.

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