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2 ott 2002 · “Pox Americana sifts carefully through journals and records of the late 18th century to reconstruct the path of the disease. Using resources as varied as the burial records kept by Catholic Priests in the Southwest and the diaries of explorers traveling up the Pacific coast, she pieces together a gripping, untold story and even tries to arrive at an accurate statistical tally for the seven ...
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- 2001
- Joyce E. Chaplin
Elizabeth Fenn’s Pox Americana reminds us that terrible diseases like smallpox not only devastate populations, but also shape the course of events. The book uses engaging narrative writing and both European and Native American sources to tell the story of the continental smallpox epidemic of 1775–82. Fenn presents this story not just as ...
29 mar 2023 · Pox Americana sheds much-needed light on smallpox's devastating effects on the Native American population. This book connects with professors and college students studying the American Revolution, Native American history, or epidemic diseases. Fenn’s work is especially relevant right now as other viruses have recently spread across the globe.
1 dic 2002 · Extract. Pox Americana is great as a story but flawed as historical epidemiology. Elizabeth A. Fenn explains that epidemic smallpox in scattered parts of North America occurred from 1775 to 1782, the years of the American War for Independence.
- Joyce E. Chaplin
- 2001
3 nov 2008 · Pox Americana. : A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across North America when the War of Independence began, and until now we have known almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone on the continent.
- 1439568863, 9781439568866
- Elizabeth A. Fenn
- Baker & Taylor, CATS, 2008
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 - Ebook written by Elizabeth A. Fenn. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82.
2 ott 2002 · Simultaneously it moved up the Pacific coast and east across the plains as far as Hudson's Bay.The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-health crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.
