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agriculture
Author_Dale L. Hutchinson
bioarchaeology
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Chesapeake
China
Chronic diseases
civilization
colonial America
Columbus
commodity
Communicable diseases
Dale Hutchinson
deer skin
demography
depopulation
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Disease and Discrimination
disease ecology
epidemics
epidemiology
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European
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History
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Indian Slave Trade
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Indus Valley
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Jesuits
lyme disease
measles
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New France
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New York
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pathogen
pestilence
plague
Poor Health and hygiene
Poverty
Psychological aspects
public health
servants
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smallpox
syphilis
tuberculosis
United States
Virgin Soil epidemics
virulence
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- ISBN 9780813064345
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2019
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Dale L. Hutchinson is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina. 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.
