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Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (2017)

Willoughby, Urmi Engineer (Author)

Louisiana State University Press
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

ISBN: 9780807167748

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 250 pp.

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Epidemics Mosquito (Insect) Public health Ecology Race Yellow fever 19th century New Orleans (Louisiana, U.S.)

The author examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, this resource analyzes how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar production, slavery, and urban development. The author argues that transnational processes--including patterns of migration, industrialization, and imperialism--contributed to ecological changes that enabled yellow fever-carrying Aedes a�gypti mosquitoes to thrive and transmit the disease in New Orleans, challenging presumptions that yellow fever was primarily transported to the Americas on slave ships. The author then traces the origin and spread of medical and popular beliefs about yellow fever immunity, from the early nineteenth-century contention that natives of New Orleans were protected, to the gradual emphasis on race as a determinant of immunity, reflecting social tensions over the abolition of slavery around the world. As the nineteenth century unfolded, ideas of biological differences between the races calcified, even as public health infrastructure expanded, and race continued to play a central role in the diagnosis and prevention of the disease. State and federal governments began to create boards and organizations responsible for preventing new outbreaks and providing care during epidemics, though medical authorities ignored evidence of black victims of yellow fever. The author argues that American imperialist ambitions also contributed to yellow fever eradication and the

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Review Guenter B. Risse (2019) Review of "Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans". American Historical Review (pp. 659-660). unapi

Review Paul S Sutter (January 2019) Review of "Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans". Environmental History (pp. 227-229). unapi

Review Paul Michael Warden (2019) Review of "Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans". Agricultural History (pp. 560-562). unapi

Review Elena Conis (2019) Review of "Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans". Journal of American History (pp. 1004-1005). unapi

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