Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic 0804797404, 9780804797405

Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic 9780804799638

Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds considers the scientific controversy about the cause of yellow fever to examine and c

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Legal Science in the Early Republic : The Origins of American Legal Thought and Education 9781498519472, 9781498519465

This work examines the intellectual motivations behind the concept of "legal science"--the first coherent Amer

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The Material City: Bodies, Minds, and the In-Between 9780228017837

Thoughtful and lively writing about themes of fate, desire, comedy, and mortality in everyday city life. Redirecting e

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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic [Core Textbook ed.] 9781400822690

Sentimentalism, sex, the construction of the modern body, and the origins of American liberalism all come under scrutiny

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The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade 9780300252019

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowled

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The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade 2019940122, 9780300215854

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Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds [Illustrated] 1643132172, 9781643132174

A fascinating look at how humans’ relationship with the sun continues to shape our bodies, attitudes, and societies. Ou

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Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 9780812291179

In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nati

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Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic 9780812200478

"The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society, in whose streets people of all social clas

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The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic 9780814749371

“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play perform

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