Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic 0804797404, 9780804797405

Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic 9780804799638

Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds considers the scientific controversy about the cause of yellow fever to examine and c

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Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic 9780226579597

The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution’s Necessary

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Legal Science in the Early Republic : The Origins of American Legal Thought and Education 9781498519472, 9781498519465

This work examines the intellectual motivations behind the concept of "legal science"--the first coherent Amer

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The Material City: Bodies, Minds, and the In-Between 9780228017837

Thoughtful and lively writing about themes of fate, desire, comedy, and mortality in everyday city life. Redirecting e

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Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic 9780226099927

Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismembe

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Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic 9780226311302

Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sand

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Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds [Illustrated] 1643132172, 9781643132174

A fascinating look at how humans’ relationship with the sun continues to shape our bodies, attitudes, and societies. Ou

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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic [Core Textbook ed.] 9781400822690

Sentimentalism, sex, the construction of the modern body, and the origins of American liberalism all come under scrutiny

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The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade 9780300252019

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowled

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The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade 2019940122, 9780300215854

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