Pox An American History

Name: Pox An American History
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ISBN: 9781594202865

ISBN-10: 1594202869

ISBN-13: 9781594202865

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Willrich

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The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern tobacco plantations to the dense immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the nascent American empire. In Pox, award-winning historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continentwide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English