Book

Necropolis

Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Kathryn Olivarius

2022

Harvard University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Q&A

The Sick Society

The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.

by Malcolm Harris, Kathryn Olivarius via n+1 on September 2, 2022
Q&A

How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in 19th-Century New Orleans

A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people.

by Kathryn Olivarius, Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on April 19, 2022

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