{"product_id":"conquering-sickness-9780803285880","title":"Conquering Sickness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublished through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConquering Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout this eighty-year period, ordinary health concerns shaped cross-cultural interactions during Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo colonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Historians have shown us that Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American settlers in the contested borderlands read the environment to determine how to live healthy, productive lives. Colonizers similarly outlined a culture of healthy living by observing local Native and Mexican populations. For colonists, Texas residents’ so-called immorality—evidenced by their “indolence,” “uncleanliness,” and “sexual impropriety”—made them unhealthy. In the Spanish and Anglo cases, the state mad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Taking up a history with a number of diverse actors and epistemologies, Goldberg demonstrates the ways in which native, European, Mexican, and US health practices were deeply entangled, even as the framework of health was repeatedly marshalled in the service of conquest. \u003ci\u003eConquering Sickness . . . \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates a cruel paradox: oppressed communities produced medical knowledge that buttressed both the authority of colonial medicine and the health of colonists, who in turn used ideologies of wellness to conquer and to oppress.\"—Michael J. Piellusch, \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConquering Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e is, in many ways, a classic borderlands study, as Goldberg highlights how indigenous people circumvented, undermined, coopted, and rerouted the impulses and programs of imperial and national powers. Goldberg's analysis, however, is sharpest—and most significant—when he explores the connections between identity formation, everyday life, and discourses of healthy living. . . . \u003ci\u003eConquering Sickness \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an excellent blueprint for locating subaltern cultural markers among the conquerors and colonizers of the borderlands.\"—Paul Barba, \u003ci\u003eSouthwestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eConquering Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to our understanding of health and colonization in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.\"—Heather Sinclair, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stunning achievement, \u003ci\u003eConquering Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e tells a compelling multiethnic and transnational story about culture and power rooted in the everyday lives of people in Texas.”—John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, associate professor at Texas State University and author of  \u003ci\u003eFevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1952\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“As Mark Goldberg’s well-researched and detailed work moves from the first smallpox inoculations in the region and the widespread use of medicinal hot springs to cures for cholera and other diseases that utilized local plants such as peyote and maguey, he illuminates in new ways the cross-cultural encounters of this multiracial border region.”—Martha Few, author of \u003ci\u003eFor All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“I can imagine \u003ci\u003eConquering Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e finding its way onto many reading lists. It’s clear that this is a book from which historians of the American West, Native American history, colonial and early national Mexico, and Texas now have much to learn.”—Thomas Andrews, author of \u003ci\u003eCoyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Note on Racial and Ethnic Terminology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late Colonial Texas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars, Coastal Indians, and Missionization in the Gulf Coast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Cholera and Nation: Epidemic Disease, Healing, and State Formation in Northern Mexico\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Making Healthy American Settlements: U.S. Expansion and Anglo American, Comanche, and Black Slave Health in Nineteenth-Century Central Texas \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Healthy Anglos, Unhealthy Mexicans: Health, Race, and Medicine in South Texas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405284614487,"sku":"9780803285880","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803285880.jpg?v=1730489489","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conquering-sickness-9780803285880","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}