cam a22 5 4500 594461626 CHVBK 20200926032115.0 200108s2020 ilu b||| 001 0 eng| 2020000791 978-0-226-71442-4 cloth 0-226-71442-X 978-0-226-71456-1 ebook (IDSBB)007211454 (OCoLC)1117627652 ICU/DLC ger DLC OCLCF OCLCO ERASA SzZuIDS BS/BE rda RA446.5.N48 M87 2020 362.10974 23 322.4/4095125 23 The province of affliction illness and the making of early New England Ben Mutschler 2006 Chicago University of Chicago Press 2020 368 pages cm Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger American beginnings, 1500-1900 Includes bibliographical references and index Overviews. A tour of the province: October 18, 1769 ; Illness in the "social credit" and "money" economies of eighteenth-century New England -- Competency. Family competency: scenes from the life course of illness ; Household competency: work, responsibility, and belonging -- Dependency. Smallpox, public health, and town governance ; The domestic costs of war: wartime afflictions -- Agency. Colonial pensioners, the revolutionary invalid corps, and the advent of "decisive disability" ; State paupers and patients -- Epilogue "As the first Europeans settled in America, they found themselves often sick, weak, and likely to die. Here, Ben Mutschler explores how illness shaped society and government in New England from roughly 1690 through 1820. He focuses on the building blocks of society and government-family, household, town, colony-and their multifaceted engagements with the problems that diseases caused. Illness both defined and strained early American institutions, bringing people together in the face of calamity yet also driving them apart when the costs of persevering became too high or were too unequally shared"-- 1700-1899 fast Diseases Social aspects New England History 18th century Diseases Social aspects New England History 19th century Public health New England History 18th century Public health New England History 19th century Diseases Social aspects fast Public health fast Political participation China Hong Kong Politics and culture China Hong Kong Protest movements China Hong Kong Sociology, Urban China Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, China, 2014 New England History 18th century New England History 19th century New England fast Hong Kong (China) Politics and government 1997- History fast Mutschler Ben author BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 acq-record IDSBB B583 B583 MAG IMG IDSBB 490 0- American beginnings, 1500-1900 IDSBB 700 1- Mutschler Ben author SWISSBIB 594461626