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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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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