The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...also Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia E. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern, Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...insistence that the subject of food equity allows readers to “identify social, political, and economic blind spots...at the core of social protest and power struggles” both past and present.3Bobby J....
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Highway A1A. A central public plaza was part of the colonial city plan, in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573 mandating an official plan for all...
Genres of Southern Literature
...user Lord_of_the_Flies. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Southern literature is substantially recognizable as contingent upon certain identifiers: geographic, social, cultural, political, as well as historical and linguistic contingencies that...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Lake," an estuarine habitat typical for coastal Florida. The name changed, however, alongside usage. In the 1920s real estate promoters began pitching new developments around a shallow, still tidal estuarine...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...an increase in virulence and general unhealthiness the further south one traveled. He was especially critical of the coastal areas from Maryland southward, reserving particular scorn for Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...mass-cultural melting pots. However, the transition from exclusive leisure spot to all-inclusive wonderland often did not happened as quickly, or as easily, or at all. Print advertisement for Lakewood Park,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...as Hearing the Call attests, she possesses multi-generational knowledge about community genealogies predating Creek Removal from ancestral homelands in Alabama and Georgia in 1836 as well as a command of specific family...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...social Darwinism and racial degeneration.28Abraham L. Wolbarst, "The Venereal Diseases: A Menace to the National Welfare," Medical Review 62 (1913): 327–80. Reformers clamored for an attack on prostitution, artists luridly...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
... Landscape is an "accumulation," an accrual of the social and material changes of its inhabitants as well as geographical changes and accretions.7D. W. Meinig, ed., The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes:...