Description Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines Yellow Fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905.
Willoughby argues that transn.
Linking local epidemics to the city\'s place in the Atlantic world, Y ellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar production, slavery, and urban development.
Description Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines Yellow Fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905