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Poisoned Eden [electronic resource] : cholera epidemics, state-building, and the problem of public health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 / Carlos S. Dimas

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Dimas, Carlos S.
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
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Contents
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. A Garden in the Republic -- 2. The Global Age of Cholera -- Part 2 -- 3. Regional Health -- 4. Provincial Health -- Part 3 -- 5. The Plague of Fear -- 6. The Cholera Epidemic of 1886-87 in Tucumán -- Part 4 -- 7. Purifying the Land against Cholera -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.
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9781496229199 (electronic bk.)
1496229193 (electronic bk.)
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