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29 de mar. de 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.
Elizabeth A. Fenn. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. New York, Hill & Wang, 2001. xiv, 370 pp., illus. $25. 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 ...
16 de nov. de 2021 · By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn's remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Québec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston.
2 de oct. de 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 ...
4 de nov. de 2001 · Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. When smallpox broke out during the American Revolution, conditions for contagion were ideal. People who were crowded in besieged cities ...
27 de jul. de 2021 · Pox Americana: The Epidemic That Tore Through Washington’s Army. An epidemic ripped through the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Caleb Haskell lived to write about it. Soon after the onset of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army launched its first major military initiative by sending two expeditions to invade modern-day ...
20 de oct. de 2001 · The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birthA horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know 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 in ...
