Pandemic in Potosí : : Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis / / Kris Lane.
In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions...
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Latin American Originals ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (152 p.) :; 9 illustrations/1 map |
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