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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Map
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Pandemic in Potosí
- 2 Catastrophe in Cuzco
- 3 Apocalypse in Arequipa
- 4 Signs and Symptoms
- 5 The Cure
- Bibliography
- Index