Necropolis: Disease Power And Capitalism In The Cotton Kingdom Kathryn Olivarius Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Economics Business & Finance

Winner Of The Frederick Jackson Turner Awardwinner James H Broussard Best First Book Prize Shearwinner Kemper And Leila Williams In Louisiana Historywinner Humanities Year Award Endowment For Humanities“A Brilliant Book…This Transformative Work Is A Pivotal Addition To Scholarship On American Slavery ”—Annette Gordon-Reed“A Stunning Account ‘High-Risk High-Reward’ Profiteering Yellow Fever–Ridden Crescent City…A World Which Deadly Virus Altered Every Aspect Brutal Social System Exacerbating Savage Inequalities Enslavement Race Class ”—John Fabian Witt Author Contagions“Olivarius’s New Perspectives Fever Immunocapitalism Politics Acclimation…Will Influence Generation Scholars Come Intersections Racism Public Health ”—The Lancetin Antebellum Orleans At Heart America’s Slave Cotton Kingdoms Epidemics Killed As Many 150 000 People With Little Understanding Origins Illness—And Meager Infrastructure—One’s Only Hope If Infected Was Survive Providing Lucky Few Mysterious Form Immunity Repeated Bolstered Orleans’s Strict Racial Hierarchy By Introducing Another “Immunocapital ” White Survivors Leveraged Their Pursue Economic Political Advancement While Enslaved Blacks Were Relegated Most Grueling Labor Question Health—Who Has It Who Doesn’t Why—Is Always Part Necropolis Shows How Powerful Nineteenth-Century Orleanians Constructed Society That Capitalized Mortal Risk Benefited From Chaos Ensued Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0708 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm