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Mark Allan Goldberg - Conquering Sickness: Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands - 9780803285880 - V9780803285880
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Conquering Sickness: Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands

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Description for Conquering Sickness: Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands Hardback. 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. Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies. Num Pages: 258 pages, 6 photos, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 535.
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Conquering Sickness 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.


Historians have shown us that Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American settlers in the contested borderlands read the environment to determine how to live healthy, productive lives. Colonizers similarly outlined a culture of healthy living by observing local Native and Mexican populations. ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Series
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803285880
SKU
V9780803285880
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About Mark Allan Goldberg
Mark Allan Goldberg is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston.

Reviews for Conquering Sickness: Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands
"Taking up a history with a number of diverse actors and epistemologies, Goldberg demonstrates the ways in which native, European, Mexican, and US health practices were deeply entangled, even as the framework of health was repeatedly marshalled in the service of conquest. Conquering Sickness . . . illuminates a cruel paradox: oppressed communities produced medical knowledge that buttressed both the authority ... Read more

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