Pandemic in Potosí fear, loathing, and public piety in a colonial mining metropolis
In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions...
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2021]
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| Colección: | Latin American originals ;
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