Search Results for: Epidemics In Colonial America

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imp

There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death

A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion“Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt’s

Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in the early American colonies. Dale Hutchinson argues that most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearb