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Fevered measures : public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848-1942
Title
Fevered measures : public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848-1942 / John Mckiernan-González.
ISBN
9780822352570 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822352761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xvi, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
From the Texas-Mexico border to the Mexican-Texas epidemic, 1848-1882
The promise of progress : quarantines and the fusion of race and nation
The appearance of progress : Black labor, smallpox, and the body politics of transnational American citizenship, 1895
The power of progress : 1898, Laredo and the limits of quarantine, 1899-1903
Domestic tensions at an American crossroads : bordering on gender, labor, and typhus control, 1910-1920
Bodies of evidence : vaccination and the body politics of transnational Mexican citizenship, 1910-1920
Border quarantine and the Texas-Mexico border : race, citizenship, and national identity, 1920-1940.
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