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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

by Elizabeth Fenn

The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every

Publisher

Hill and Wang

Publication date

October 2, 2002

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780809078219