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

Disease Is Thought To Be A Great Leveler Of Humanity But In Antebellum New Orleans Acquiring Immunity From The Scourge Yellow Fever Magnified Brutal Inequities Slave-Powered Capitalism Sat At Heart America’s Slave And Cotton Kingdoms It Was Also Where Epidemics Killed As Many 150 000 People During Nineteenth Century With Little Understanding Mosquito-Borne Viruses—And Meager Public Health Infrastructure—A Person’s Only Protection Against “Get Acclimated” By Surviving About Half Those Who Contracted Died Repeated Bolstered Orleans’s Strict Racial Hierarchy Introducing Another What Kathryn Olivarius Terms “Immunocapital ” This Highly Original Analysis Shows White Survivors Could Leverage Their Evidence That They Had Paid Biological Dues Then Pursue Economic Political Advancement For Enslaved Blacks Story Different Protected Them Embodied Capital Saw Social Monetary Value Acclimation Accrue Owners Whereas Conferred Opportunity Privilege On Whites Relegated Most Grueling Labor Question Good Health—Who Has Doesn’t Why—Is Always Part Necropolis How Powerful Nineteenth-Century Orleanians—All Allegedly Immune—Pushed Politics Extreme Constructed Society Capitalized Mortal Risk Equated Perceived Creditworthiness Reliability Instead Trying Curb Through Sanitation Or Quarantines Immune Orleanians Took Advantage Chaos Caused Immunological Discrimination Therefore Became One More Form Bias Premised Inequality Channel Which Disciplined Divided Population Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0419 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm