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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 ...
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.
1 de ene. de 2001 · 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. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves ...
20 de oct. de 2001 · 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-helath crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.
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 ...
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 ...
2 de oct. de 2002 · Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping acrossNorth America when the War of Independence began, anduntil now, we have known almost nothing about it.Elizabeth Fenn is the first historian to reveal howdeeply this disease affected the outcome of the war inevery colony and the lives of ...
