This essay uses the Mexican port city of Tampico as a case study of the relationship between nation-state formation, urban transformation, and public health policy during the late nineteenth century. It examines a virulent yellow fever epidemic in 1898 to illustrate how Tampico's urban transformation generated conditions for the epidemic, and how public health officials addressed the challenge of combating the epidemic. Special emphasis is placed on how officials used quarantines in a failed attempt to contain the problem. As a result of its limitations, national authorities came to perceive quarantines as antithetical to the project of the modern nation-state, leading them to adopt urban sanitation projects as substitute. Local and state a...
From May to October 1853, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, battled a terrifying epidemic of yello...
Las sociedades de finales del Antiguo Régimen se vieron amenazadas por diferentes enfermedades, sie...
By the 1790s, Philadelphia was a thriving port city that saw numerous ships arriving daily from fore...
Socorro, a municipality of Santander Colombia, was an important urban settlement during previous ti...
Abstract While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracr...
International audienceThe Yellow Fever epidemic that took place in Barcelona in 1821 was a consequen...
In this article I focus on the nexus of urbanization, the environment and public health that was exp...
An overview of different epidemics suffered in Buenos Aires sin ce the sixteenth century, and of the...
sem informaçãoDuring the first half of the nineteenth century, as cholera and yellow fever epidemics...
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o impacto da epidemia de febre amarela ocorrida no verão de 1849-...
Forced to face a serious epidemic crisis that started nearly throughout the second half of the XIX c...
he goal of this paper is to present the measures taken in a local context (on the example of Tabasco...
El presente artículo analiza el establecimiento de cuarentenas en Perú y los debates generados en to...
This article seeks to analyze how local authorities in Concepción developed a series of policies and...
This paper analyzes the social importance of the plague epidemic that caught Sinaloa and Baja Califo...
From May to October 1853, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, battled a terrifying epidemic of yello...
Las sociedades de finales del Antiguo Régimen se vieron amenazadas por diferentes enfermedades, sie...
By the 1790s, Philadelphia was a thriving port city that saw numerous ships arriving daily from fore...
Socorro, a municipality of Santander Colombia, was an important urban settlement during previous ti...
Abstract While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracr...
International audienceThe Yellow Fever epidemic that took place in Barcelona in 1821 was a consequen...
In this article I focus on the nexus of urbanization, the environment and public health that was exp...
An overview of different epidemics suffered in Buenos Aires sin ce the sixteenth century, and of the...
sem informaçãoDuring the first half of the nineteenth century, as cholera and yellow fever epidemics...
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o impacto da epidemia de febre amarela ocorrida no verão de 1849-...
Forced to face a serious epidemic crisis that started nearly throughout the second half of the XIX c...
he goal of this paper is to present the measures taken in a local context (on the example of Tabasco...
El presente artículo analiza el establecimiento de cuarentenas en Perú y los debates generados en to...
This article seeks to analyze how local authorities in Concepción developed a series of policies and...
This paper analyzes the social importance of the plague epidemic that caught Sinaloa and Baja Califo...
From May to October 1853, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, battled a terrifying epidemic of yello...
Las sociedades de finales del Antiguo Régimen se vieron amenazadas por diferentes enfermedades, sie...
By the 1790s, Philadelphia was a thriving port city that saw numerous ships arriving daily from fore...