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Maladies of Empire

How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

by Jim Downs ...

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine.Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in ... Read more

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A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine.Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in
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Sick from Freedom

African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Jim Downs ...

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from ... Read more

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Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from
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Stand by Me

The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation

by Jim Downs ...

From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970sDespite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph -- ... Read more

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From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970sDespite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph --
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Maladies of Empire

How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

by Jim Downs ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key ... Read more

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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key
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Why We Write

The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

by Jim Downs ...

Why We Write provides a forum for scholars, activists, and novelists to reflect on the ways in which they use their writing and academic work to create social change. This volume uncovers the political agendas, social missions, and personal and professional experiences that compel writers to bring their stories to the page. Why We Write examines the dual commitment of writing articles and books ... Read more

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Why We Write provides a forum for scholars, activists, and novelists to reflect on the ways in which they use their writing and academic work to create social change. This volume uncovers the political agendas, social missions, and personal and professional experiences that compel writers to bring their stories to the page. Why We Write examines the dual commitment of writing articles and books
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January 6 and the Politics of History

by Jim Downs, Stephanie McCurry, Joanne B. Freeman, Elizabeth Hinton, Jill Lepore, William Sturkey, Julian E. Zelizer ...

Series series History in the Headlines
On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to his successor, Joseph Biden. The deaths, property damage, and vicious rampage that ensued were witnessed on live television as an unprecedented attack on the democratic process and those who ... Read more

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On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to his successor, Joseph Biden. The deaths, property damage, and vicious rampage that ensued were witnessed on live television as an unprecedented attack on the democratic process and those who
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Remembering the Memphis Massacre

An American Story

by Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Timothy S. Huebner, Elizabeth L. Jemison, Andre E. Johnson, Kate Masur, K. Stephen Prince, Joseph Reidy, John Rodrigue, Hannah Rosen, Joshua D. Rothman, Julie Saville, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Slap ...

On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of ... Read more

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On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of
... Read more
North Carolina Women

Their Lives and Times, Volume 1

by Angela Robbins, Corey Stewart, Cynthia A. Kierner, Elizabeth Lundeen, James Alsop, Jim Downs, John C. Inscoe, Margaret Smith, Robert Hunt Ferguson, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Sarah H. Hill, Sheila R. Phipps, Suzanne Cooper Guasco, Terrell Armistead Crow, Vivian M. May, William A. Link, Jon F. Sensbach ...

North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a ... Read more

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North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a
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Sexuality and Slavery

Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

by Trevor Burnard, Stephanie M. H. Camp, David Doddington, Jim Downs, Thomas A. Foster, Marisa Fuentes, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Jessica Millward, Bianca Premo, Brenda Stevenson ...

Series series
In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core ... Read more

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In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core
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Medicine by the People

How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare (A Norton Short)

by Jim Downs ...

Narrated by Adam Verner ...

Unabridged

6 hours

A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care.Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.In colonial America, Black people's knowledge led to smallpox ... Read more

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A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care.Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.In colonial America, Black people's knowledge led to smallpox
... Read more
Medicine by the People

How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare

by Jim Downs ...

Series series A Norton Short
A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care.Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.Throughout early American history, everyday people—from enslaved ... Read more

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A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care.Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.Throughout early American history, everyday people—from enslaved
... Read more
Beyond Freedom

Disrupting the History of Emancipation

by Eric Foner, Justin Behrend, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, James Oakes0, Susan Eva O'Donovan1, Hannah Rosen2, Brenda Stevenson3, Richard S. Newman4 ...

Series series
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to ... Read more

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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to
... Read more

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