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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

byElizabeth 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. Pox Americana combines archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of history, Pox Americana explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter.

Publisher

Hill and Wang

Publication date

October 2, 2002

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780809078219