The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
Autor Manuel Barciaen Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2020
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300215854
ISBN-10: 0300215851
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 23 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300215851
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 23 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“Historians of slavery will long reference and benefit from Barcia’s rich descriptions of the hygienic conditions of the slave trade and the medical standards, theories, and methods deployed by traders.”—H-Net
Winner of the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize, sponsored by the Journal of Global Slavery
“The Yellow Demon of Fever is a stunning scholarly achievement. This highly readable social history is an indispensable study for anyone interested in knowledge exchanges in the Atlantic world.”—Judith Carney, University of California, Los Angeles
“A landmark study in the history of medicine and Atlantic slavery. Unrestrained by linguistic or imperial boundaries, Barcia’s ground-breaking book exposes the struggle for racial and medical control in the ‘contact zones’ of the Atlantic slave trade.”—Katherine Paugh, University of Oxford
“A tour de force. Barcia’s deeply researched and well-written book opens a fascinating, disturbing, and vital window into the illegal slave trade of the nineteenth century and the advancement of medical knowledge.”—Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University
”Extraordinary. A breakthrough work, among the most insightful histories of the nineteenth century written in the past half century.”—Dale Graden, University of Idaho
“This is original and well researched. It is an important contribution. I know Barcia’s work very well, and this is his best book yet.”— Paul Lovejoy, York University
Winner of the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize, sponsored by the Journal of Global Slavery
“The Yellow Demon of Fever is a stunning scholarly achievement. This highly readable social history is an indispensable study for anyone interested in knowledge exchanges in the Atlantic world.”—Judith Carney, University of California, Los Angeles
“A landmark study in the history of medicine and Atlantic slavery. Unrestrained by linguistic or imperial boundaries, Barcia’s ground-breaking book exposes the struggle for racial and medical control in the ‘contact zones’ of the Atlantic slave trade.”—Katherine Paugh, University of Oxford
“A tour de force. Barcia’s deeply researched and well-written book opens a fascinating, disturbing, and vital window into the illegal slave trade of the nineteenth century and the advancement of medical knowledge.”—Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University
”Extraordinary. A breakthrough work, among the most insightful histories of the nineteenth century written in the past half century.”—Dale Graden, University of Idaho
“This is original and well researched. It is an important contribution. I know Barcia’s work very well, and this is his best book yet.”— Paul Lovejoy, York University
Notă biografică
Manuel Barcia is chair of global history at the University of Leeds and a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in History.