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The Province of Affliction

- Illness and the Making of Early New England

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"As the first Europeans settled in America, they found themselves often sick, weak, and likely to die. Here, Ben Mutschler explores how illness shaped society and government in New England from roughly 1690 through 1820. He focuses on the building blocks of society and government-family, household, town, colony-and their multifaceted engagements with the problems that diseases caused. Illness both defined and strained early American institutions, bringing people together in the face of calamity yet also driving them apart when the costs of persevering became too high or were too unequally shared"--

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780226714424
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 368
  • Udgivet:
  • 6. august 2020
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x0 mm.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..
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"As the first Europeans settled in America, they found themselves often sick, weak, and likely to die. Here, Ben Mutschler explores how illness shaped society and government in New England from roughly 1690 through 1820. He focuses on the building blocks of society and government-family, household, town, colony-and their multifaceted engagements with the problems that diseases caused. Illness both defined and strained early American institutions, bringing people together in the face of calamity yet also driving them apart when the costs of persevering became too high or were too unequally shared"--

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