Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 17, 2016).
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; One Columbus Day or Contagion Day: Disease "Arrives" in America; Two "Deus Flavit Nasus et Dissipati Sunt": The Protestant Wind and the Catholic Flu; Three Pocahontas and the Plague: The English and Disease in the Conquest of the Colonies; Four "The Paths to Glory Lead but to the Grave": Disease in the Early French and Indian Wars; Five "Pestilence Gave Them a Common Death": Disease and the English Conquest of North America; Six Typhus and Taxation: Disease and the American Revolution.
Seven A Nation Forged in Gout and expanded by Venereal Disease: A Medical Look at the Early RepublicEight Montezuma's Revenge: Disease and Manifest Destiny; Nine Johnny Dysentery and Billy Typhus: Disease and the Civil War; Ten Remember the Maine, to Hell with Yellow Fever: Imperialism and Illness; Eleven Love in the Age of Cholera, Warfare in the Age of Typhoid: Progressivism and Pestilence; Twelve Bullets, Bayonets, and Botulism: Biological Warfare in the Twentieth Century; Thirteen Al-Qaeda, Anthrax, and America: Terrorism and Disease in Post-Cold War America; Conclusion; Endnotes.