Conquering Sickness - Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor Mark Allan Goldberg is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston. Klappentext Mark Allan Goldberg is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston. Zusammenfassung Presents a comprehensive analysis of race! health! and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout this eighty-year period! ordinary health concerns shaped cross-cultural interactions during Spanish! Mexican! and Anglo colonization. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note on Racial and Ethnic TerminologyChapter 1: Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late Colonial TexasChapter 2: The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars, Coastal Indians, and Missionization in the Gulf CoastChapter 3: Cholera and Nation: Epidemic Disease, Healing, and State Formation in Northern MexicoChapter 4: Making Healthy American Settlements: U.S. Expansion and Anglo American, Comanche, and Black Slave Health in Nineteenth-Century Central Texas Chapter 5: Healthy Anglos, Unhealthy Mexicans: Health, Race, and Medicine in South TexasEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Mark Allan Goldberg
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780803285880
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8588-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Borderlands and Transcultural; Borderlands and Transcultural Studies; Borderlands and Transcultural
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous