Necropolis : : Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom / / Kathryn Olivarius.
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the brutal inequities of slave-powered capitalism. Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yello...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author’s Note -- Introduction: A Rising Necropolis -- 1. Patriotic Fever -- 2. Danse Macabre -- 3. Immunocapital -- 4. Public Health, Private Acclimation -- 5. Denial, Delusion, and Disunion -- 6. Incumbent Arrogance -- Epilogue: Fever and Folly -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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